Recorded 1887–2025 · United States
Carmelita was most popular in 1973, when 140 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,544 that year. In 2025 it ranked #12,918, with 14 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,965 people named Carmelita.
Carmelita first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1887, which makes it about 138 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 137 of the 139 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,965 American births named Carmelita between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,474 are estimated to be alive today.
14 American babies were named Carmelita in 2025, ranking #12,918 that year.
Carmelita is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 16 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Carmelita is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 6,965 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,474 Americans named Carmelita are alive today — 64% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 57 years old, and half are between 44 and 70.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org