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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Carmela

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,219

down −62 places

2025 births

186

down −22 births

All-time births

24,506

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1923
586 births
Best rank
#266
in 1923
First recorded
1882
#929 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1948
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
139 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1923586#266Peak
  2. 1924578#273
  3. 1922574#271
  4. 1925565#280
  5. 1921564#279

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #266 in 1923 · peak births 586 in 1923

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 24,506 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Carmela has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.