Meaning and history
Carmel comes from the title of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and from כַּרְמֶל (Karmel), the Hebrew word meaning “garden,” which refers to a mountain in Israel mentioned in the Old Testament and once home to several early Christian monasteries. As an English given name, it has mainly been used by Catholics.
20062006: 19 births, rank #6,592
2007: 27 births, rank #5,230
2008: 20 births, rank #6,559
2009: 20 births, rank #6,544
2010: 13 births, rank #8,701
20112011: 17 births, rank #7,118
2012: 18 births, rank #6,872
2013: 22 births, rank #5,834
2014: 21 births, rank #5,993
2015: 18 births, rank #6,721
20162016: 8 births, rank #11,781
2017: 20 births, rank #6,044
2018: 9 births, rank #10,545
2019: 14 births, rank #7,716
2020: 13 births, rank #7,969
20212021: 13 births, rank #8,024
2022: 20 births, rank #5,984
2023: 12 births, rank #8,486
2024: 28 births, rank #4,772
20252025: 26 births, rank #4,987
Carmel moved from #848 to #949 for girls between 1962 and 1963. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 155 births.