Carmella
Carmella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 169 births. Its best rank was 276th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1690.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1922554 births
- Best rank
- #276in 1922
- Since 1891
- 20,477people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,477 girls have been named Carmella in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 554 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carmella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 107 | |
| 1900s | 444 | |
| 1910s | 2,863 | |
| 1920s | 4,761 | |
| 1930s | 2,392 | |
| 1940s | 1,541 | |
| 1950s | 1,465 | |
| 1960s | 1,408 | |
| 1970s | 879 | |
| 1980s | 690 | |
| 1990s | 456 | |
| 2000s | 1,111 | |
| 2010s | 1,553 | |
| 2020s | 807 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Carmella was the 276th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Carmella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carmelapeak 1923
- Michelinapeak 1922
- Annamaepeak 1922
- Rosalinepeak 1928
- Rosariapeak 1923
- Leonardapeak 1920
- Magdalinepeak 1921
- Marcellapeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.