Carmelo
Carmelo reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 515, and has been recorded 13,173 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 710th. About 11,000 Carmelos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carmelo boys named Carmelo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,173
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 515th
- Rank in 2025
- 710th
- First recorded
- 1904
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 13,168
How old the living Carmelos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,173 babies given the name since 1904, about 11,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 6,400 of them are children and 670 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Carmelos
- Carmelo Anthony (born 1984)American basketball player
- Carmelo Bene (1937–2002)Italian actor
- Carmelo Cedrún (1930–2026)Spanish football player and manager
- Carmelo Robledo (1912–1961)boxer
- Carmelo Simeone (1934–2014)Argentine association football player
- Carmelo Camet (1904–2007)Olympic fencer
- Carmelo Gómez (born 1962)Spanish actor
- Carmelo Bossi (1939–2014)Italian boxer
People named Carmelo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carmelo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carmelo is most concentrated in New York (4.1×), Connecticut (2.9×), New Jersey (2.5×), Florida (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Carmelo peaked:
Carmelo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Carmelo | 4,874 | — |
| France boys | Carmelo | 1,305 | 248th |
| England and Wales boys | Carmelo | 107 | 1,610th |
| Belgium boys | Carmelo | 66 | 782nd |
| Switzerland boys | Carmelo | 47 | 936th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Carmelo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Carmelo | 33 | 0.003% | 785th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Carmelo | 10 | 0.002% | 466th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Carmelo | 4 | 0.006% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Carmelo: rank by region
In 2011, Carmelo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Carmelo | 402 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Carmelo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Carmelo | 5 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Carmelo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 16,436 men called Carmelo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Carmelo | 2,397 | 4.121 | 33 |
| Soria | Carmelo | 141 | 3.076 | 65 |
| Huelva | Carmelo | 710 | 2.656 | 71 |
| Rioja, La | Carmelo | 363 | 2.252 | 83 |
| Ciudad Real | Carmelo | 437 | 1.780 | 95 |
| Palencia | Carmelo | 138 | 1.751 | 101 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Carmelo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.