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Carmilla

#13,524 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Carmella

Carmilla has been given to 451 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #13,524 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Carmilla, 2025

1 in 553,000

Carmilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carmilla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Carmella

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carmilla means

Carmilla is a variant of Carmella.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Carmilla is used in Literature.

Origin, language, and formation

Carmilla is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmella.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 451 girls were recorded with the name Carmilla between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,394 in 1921.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,862 in 2015 to #13,524 in 2025.

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 Carmilla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,524
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carmilla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carmillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmilla was born before 1969 — so the typical Carmilla is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
332
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Carmilla 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
−4,476
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,338
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1921 (15)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,394
1921

Spellings of Carmilla

Carmilla is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 42.5% against Carmilla's 0.15%.

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.

Carmilla around the world

Where Carmilla 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.

  • South Australia
    1973–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carmilla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,394
1921
Peak year
1921
15 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
451
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Carmilla

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

CarnellaCarlisleCarolenaCarmellaCarabellaCardellaCarmineCarolynaCaralineCarriganCartierGiabellaEzabellaCarlethaCarianneCarlynnCarreraKarmellaCaraleeCaralinaMicaellaKimbellaYzabellaCarianna

Sibling names for Carmilla

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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