How popular is the name Carmelita?

Carmelita ranks 1,726th among girls' names in US records, with 6,950 births since 1887. Over the past decade it accounts for 109.

Is Carmelita a unisex name?

No. Carmelita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1973, when 140 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,726 of girl names

Pronounced K AA0 R M AH0 L IY1 T AA0 (ARPABET)

Carmelita is a girls' name, and first appears in 1887. It has been given to 6,950 children — the 1,726th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 109 births across the past decade, against a peak of 140 in a single year. That peak was in 1973.

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Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Carmelita?: Carmelita ranks 1,726th among girls' names in US records, with 6,950 births since 1887. Over the past decade it accounts for 109.
Is Carmelita a unisex name?: No. Carmelita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Carmelita most popular?: 1973, when 140 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.