Carmelita was the #7,491 girls' name in the US in 2025 (14 babies).
Carmelita as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
2025
#7,491 (14)
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2024
#7,251 (15)
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2022
#9,680 (10)
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2021
#9,562 (10)
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2020
#6,629 (17)
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2019
#10,473 (9)
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2018
#8,146 (13)
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2017
#8,299 (13)
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2016
#8,875 (12)
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2015
#9,481 (11)
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2014
#7,636 (15)
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2013
#7,748 (15)
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2012
#5,557 (24)
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2011
#7,783 (15)
#5,785 (3)
2010
#7,217 (17)
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The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1973 at #894.
Holding steady over the last five years.
First recorded in the US in 1887.
A comeback: it faded for decades and is rising again.
How common is it?
about 1 in 110,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.