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Carmelo

#712 in 2025Boys' name

Masculine form of Carmel

Carmelo has been given to 13,173 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #712 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 516 recorded.

Babies named Carmelo, 2025

1 in 8,790

Carmelo over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carmelo: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine form of Carmel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carmelo means

Carmelo is a masculine form of Carmel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Carmelo → Carmel. The family’s meaning is “vineyard of El/God”, recorded in English with the source elements karmél.

Origin, language, and formation

Carmelo is used in Italian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmel and Carmela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Carmelo is pronounced /karˈmɛ.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,168 boys were recorded with the name Carmelo between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 516 in 2013; its best national rank was #515 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #717 in 2020 to #712 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #708 in 2015 to #712 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Carmelo between 1923 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1923; its best national rank was #5,068 in 1923.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carmelo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,790
377 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,530
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#712
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,096 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carmelo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 6,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmelo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carmelos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmelo was born before 2007 — so the typical Carmelo is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,213
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (3,777).

Is Carmelo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−13
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.1%
Peak was 2013 (516)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#515
2013

Spellings of Carmelo

Carmelo is not the most common spelling — Carmen is, with 20.8% against Carmelo's 16.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carmelo is used

Across 2016–2025, Carmelo was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 1,471 boys, against 1 in 4,519 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

368 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 1,471
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,381
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,564
  4. 4New York1 in 2,703
  5. 5Illinois1 in 2,778
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 3,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 4,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 4,348

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Carmelo is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 79% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Carmelo around the world

Where Carmelo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    1920–2025
    #3,128
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Carmelo

People whose public names include Carmelo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carmelo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carmelo. Linked forms have their own page here.

MeloCarmelloCarmelus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carmelo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#712
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5
Best rank ever
#515
2013
Peak year
2013
516 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,168
Count in 2025
377

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,068
1923
Peak year
1923
5 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carmelo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CarmineCarmenCarnellCarlyleMarceloCarltonDangeloCartierCarloCardellCarstenCareyCarsenDeangeloCarverCarrollCarlitoCarlinCarmelloCarsynCarlisleCarrolCarlsonCary

Names with a curve like Carmelo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carmelo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EdisonEphraimLucianLeightonEnochLaytonVincenzoGrayAsaEmmittUriahLayne

Sibling names for Carmelo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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