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Carmela

Italian, Spanish and Galician form of Carmel.

PronunciationItalian /kar.ˈmɛ.la/; Spanish /kaɾ.ˈme.la/; Galician /kɑɾ.ˈmɛ.lɐ/
Usage languagesGalician, Italian, Spanish
US rank (2025)#1,219

Meaning and history

Carmela is the Italian, Spanish, and Galician form of Carmel.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 124 births, rank #1,691
2007: 119 births, rank #1,792
2008: 113 births, rank #1,880
2009: 115 births, rank #1,848
2010: 94 births, rank #2,093
20112011: 101 births, rank #1,953
2012: 87 births, rank #2,160
2013: 117 births, rank #1,754
2014: 124 births, rank #1,692
2015: 113 births, rank #1,831
20162016: 117 births, rank #1,775
2017: 114 births, rank #1,815
2018: 115 births, rank #1,774
2019: 149 births, rank #1,474
2020: 138 births, rank #1,533
20212021: 135 births, rank #1,554
2022: 131 births, rank #1,612
2023: 153 births, rank #1,455
2024: 208 births, rank #1,156
20252025: 186 births, rank #1,219

Carmela moved from #831 to #950 for girls between 1975 and 1976. Its highest annual birth count came in 1923, with 586 births.