How rare is the name Carmella?

9,487 people in the United States have the first name Carmella, about 1 in 31,836. It ranks #2,554 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CARMELLA

#2,554

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,487
About
1 in 31,836
This common or more
80.2%
Who bears it

Of the 9,487 people named Carmella, 68% reported their origin as White, 15% as Black and 10.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Carmella peaked in 1922, when 554 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18912025
Peak year
1922
Births that year
554
In 2025*
174 ▼69%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 20,653 babies have been given the name since 1891. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Carmella by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #562. The largest share of babies named Carmella, 35%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1890s#1,559107
1900s#812444
1910s#5742,863
1920s#5624,761
1930s#7732,392
1940s#1,1051,541
1950s#1,3791,465
1960s#1,4921,408
1970s#2,107879
1980s#2,776690
1990s#4,539456
2000s#3,0911,111
2010s#2,6231,553
2020s#2,557983
Before 19010.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2735%
Silent Generation 1928–4520%
Baby boom 1946–6413.6%
Generation X 1965–807.8%
Millennials 1981–964.7%
Generation Z 1997–128.1%
2013 and later10.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Carmella is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carmella has been most common in New Jersey (4.4×), Pennsylvania (4×), and Connecticut (3.5×), and least common in Missouri (0.08×).

15,746 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Carmella

#2,552 Ulysses · 9,490#2,553 Ophelia · 9,489#2,555 Ernestina · 9,458#2,556 Ciera · 9,456

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Carmella, most common first.

#1,696 Carmela · 18,223#2,094 Carmelo · 12,863#2,891 Carmelita · 7,909#3,611 Carmel · 5,664#6,239 Carnell · 2,588#6,771 Carmelina · 2,330#9,024 Carmello · 1,570#14,468 Carmelia · 815

Also a last name

As a last name, Carmella ranks #118,445 of 156,621, with 155 people. See Carmella as a last name

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