Carmelita

Where Carmelita comes from

Carmelita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #937 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1901
    Carmelita Geraghty born
    American actress and painter
  3. 1930
    Peak, #664
    107 babies named Carmelita — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1979
    Carmelita Jeter born
    American female 100m sprinter
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,484.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carmelita Jeter · American female 100m sprinter, born 1979
  • Carmelita Geraghty · American actress and painter, 1901–1966
  • Carmelita González · Mexican actress, 1928–2010
  • Carmelita Correa · Mexican pole vaulter, born 1988
  • Carmelita Tropicana · Cuban-American actress, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.