Carmelo

Where Carmelo comes from

Carmelo 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. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,064 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Carmelo Bene born
    Italian actor
  3. 1984
    Carmelo Anthony born
    American basketball player
  4. 2013
    Peak, #515
    516 babies named Carmelo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Carmelo Anthony · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Carmelo Bene · Italian actor, 1937–2002
  • Carmelo Cedrún · Spanish football player and manager, 1930–2026
  • Carmelo Simeone · Argentine association football player, 1934–2014
  • Carmelo Robledo · boxer, 1912–1982

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.