Karmella
#7,673 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karmella has been given to 521 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #7,673 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Karmella, 2025
1 in 237,000
Karmella over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Karmella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,673
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karmella sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karmella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karmellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karmella was born before 2013 — so the typical Karmella is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 521
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (228).
Is Karmella 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
- −1,395
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,728
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,928
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.61×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.8%
- Peak was 2012 (32)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Karmella
Karmella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 40.9% against Karmella's 0.32%.
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.
Karmella around the world
Where Karmella 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 & Wales2010–2010#4,688in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Karmella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karmella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karmella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.