Carmalita

Peak · girls
1973 · 22 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
415
since 1925

Carmalita over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Carmalita has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,015, 1973girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2006#17,1685
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2001#15,3525
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1996#13,5185
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1994#10,5697
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1990#8,5019
1989#7,44910
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1987#7,3539
1986#10,9125
1985#10,6775
1984#8,1537
1983#6,7059
1982#8,2247
1981#5,57112
1980#8,1787
1979#4,42016
1978#8,5626
1977#5,21312
1976#3,67818
1975#3,15522
1974#5,01111
1973#3,01522
1972#4,79311
1971#4,12314
1970#6,3627
1969#5,4568
1968#3,61014
1967#3,84512
1966#4,4939
1965#4,4949
1964#5,4747
1963#3,80112
1962#4,5339
1961#3,60813
1960#6,3905
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1958#4,5208
1957#6,0865
1956#5,9525
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1953#5,0406
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1941#3,5597
1940#3,8636
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1930#4,0476
1929#4,0536
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First appearance
1925

The first year at least five girls were named Carmalita! It came in at #4,973, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1925–1928, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Carmalita is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Carmalita in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Carmalita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2006
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1925
  • Peaked 1973 at #3,015 (22 births)
  • Births halved by 1974, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 66,266
  • Highest: 1 in 66,266 girls born in 1975 were named Carmalita (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 380,242 girls born in 2006 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,015 in 1973, was only 1 in 66,282 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 33.5% of all girls named Carmalita (139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s11#4,053 (1929)#4,513
1930s11#4,047 (1930)#4,229
1940s19#3,559 (1941)#3,946
1950s35#4,520 (1958)#5,364
1960s98#3,608 (1961)#4,570
1970s139#3,015 (1973)#4,833
1980s71#5,571 (1981)#8,136
1990s21#8,501 (1990)#10,863
2000s10#15,352 (2001)#16,260

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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