How rare is the name Carmine?

8,464 people in the United States have the first name Carmine, about 1 in 35,684. It ranks #2,755 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CARMINE

#2,755

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,464
About
1 in 35,684
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,464 people named Carmine, 84.5% reported their origin as White, 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 2.7% as two or more races. 94.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Carmine peaked in 2006, when 267 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18912025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
267
In 2025*
220 ▼18%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 14,437 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.

Carmine by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #848. The largest share of babies named Carmine, 23.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1890s#2,83522
1900s#1,507153
1910s#8881,395
1920s#8482,211
1930s#9711,539
1940s#1,2501,237
1950s#1,4821,276
1960s#1,6521,178
1970s#2,250778
1980s#3,066589
1990s#4,544455
2000s#2,8341,254
2010s#2,9061,348
2020s#2,5181,002
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2723.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4518.5%
Baby boom 1946–6417%
Generation X 1965–809.5%
Millennials 1981–965.9%
Generation Z 1997–1212.4%
2013 and later13.4%

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 Carmine is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carmine has been most common in New York (7.4×), New Jersey (6.8×), and Connecticut (4.1×), and least common in Texas (0.15×).

11,637 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 Carmine

#2,752 Khanh · 8,489#2,754 Karim · 8,470#2,756 Arron · 8,463#2,756 Omari · 8,463

Spelled almost the same

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

#239 Carmen · 237,758#5,149 Carman · 3,395#6,175 Carmina · 2,626#8,568 Carmon · 1,689#10,848 Carmin · 1,208#15,054 Carmyn · 771#37,148 Carminda · 211#44,078 Carmene · 158

Also a last name

As a last name, Carmine ranks #39,536 of 156,621, with 600 people. See Carmine as a last name

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