Karmela

Peak · girls
1965 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
219
since 1965

Karmela over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Karmela has never cracked the top 6,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #6,539, 1965girls
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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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rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#8,94611
2023#8,98911
2022#8,03213
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2020#8,40612
2019#7,34215
2018#10,5459
2017#10,6899
2016#10,8599
2015#8,93112
2014#8,48513
2013#9,03612
2012#11,2579
2011#12,1538
2010#14,9596
2009#8,88813
2008#11,5999
2007#9,00713
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2004#14,1796
2003#15,7845
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First appearance
1965

The first year at least five girls were named Karmela! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1965–2003, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Karmela is popular in 2025

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

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,971 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,917)
  • 2,511 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #10,917)
  • 1,986 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 1965 at #6,539 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1966, 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 111,891
  • Highest: 1 in 111,891 girls born in 2019 were named Karmela (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #6,539 in 1965, was only 1 in 353,033 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 46.6% of all girls named Karmela (102) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s10#6,539 (1965)#6,672
1970s0——
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2000s52#8,888 (2009)#12,327
2010s102#7,342 (2019)#10,426
2020s55#8,032 (2022)#9,058

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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