Karmelo

#1,523 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Carmelo

Karmelo has been given to 1,391 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #1,523 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Karmelo, 2025

1 in 29,100

Karmelo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karmelo: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Carmelo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karmelo means

Karmelo is a variant of Carmelo.

Origin, language, and formation

Karmelo is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmelo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,391 boys were recorded with the name Karmelo between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,486 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,739 in 2020 to #1,523 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,662 in 2015 to #1,523 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 Karmelo?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 29,100; 114 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 15,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #1,523; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 20,158 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Karmelo 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 100Under 1%

School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,158 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karmelo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karmelos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karmelo was born before 2018 — so the typical Karmelo is around 7 today.

Median birth year: 2018; About 7 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,391; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (655).

Is Karmelo 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: +223; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +216; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,139; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.48×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 94.2%; Peak was 2021 (121)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,486; 2021

Spellings of Karmelo

Karmelo is not the most common spelling — Marcelo is, with 38.6% against Karmelo's 4.1%.

Marcelo38.6%13,231
Carmelo38.4%13,168
Carmello6.3%2,154
Carmel4.1%1,393
Karmelo4.1%1,391
Karlo3.1%1,061
Karmello2.0%702
Karel1.8%606

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 Karmelo is used

Across 2016–2025, Karmelo was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 23,727 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in 10,000
2Florida1 in 14,286
3Michigan1 in 14,286
4Texas1 in 16,667
5Illinois1 in 20,000
6North Carolina1 in 25,000
7Ohio1 in 25,000
8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Karmelo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #1,523
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 216
Best rank ever: #1,486; 2021
Peak year: 2021; 121 that year
First recorded: 2003
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,391
Count in 2025: 114

Names similar to Karmelo

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

Karthik Kartier Karsten Karlos Karlton Karmello Karsyn Karan Karam Karsen Karlo Kartik Karver Karlin Karston Romelo Karder Karriem Karas Karel Karon Karsin Kareen Diangelo

Sibling names for Karmelo

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

For a sister

Layne Shoshana Aislinn Estela Harleigh Nila Emani Isha

For a brother

Henri Gray Rian Levon Bishop Torin Ishmael Smith

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