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Carmina

#8,973 in 2025Girls' name

Song, poem, through Carmen

Carmina has been given to 1,323 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #8,973 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Carmina, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carmina: meaning, origin, and history

Song, poem, through Carmen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carmina means

Carmina belongs to the name family reached through Carmina → Carmen. Its meaning is “song, poem”.

Origin, language, and formation

Carmina is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Carmina is pronounced /kaɾˈmina/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,323 girls were recorded with the name Carmina between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,445 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,056 in 2020 to #8,973 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,879 in 2015 to #8,973 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 Carmina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,973
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carmina 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmina was born before 1989 — so the typical Carmina is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
17.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,183
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 17.3% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Carmina 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
+76
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,094
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 1994 (38)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,445
1976

Spellings of Carmina

Carmina is not the most common spelling — Carmen is, with 24.1% against Carmina's 0.22%.

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 Carmina is used

Across 1910–2025, Carmina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 91,294 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Carmina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carmina around the world

Where Carmina 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
    2006–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • France
    1925–2018
    #6,489
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1995–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1953–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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.

Carmina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,973
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 83
Best rank ever
#2,445
1976
Peak year
1994
38 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,323
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Carmina

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

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Sibling names for Carmina

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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