girls:
21 births since 1921
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1913
#2773 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1913
#5711 (26th percentile)
The name Carmello is the #5,711 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,071 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,773 (39.5% percentile) for all time with 2,050 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1921.
Carmello first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Carmello is available in 62 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (62 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carmello has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Carmello reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 16.1% percentile (ranked #739) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 72 births per million (ranked 16.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Carmello ranks #865 for boys (5.1% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 38.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carmello reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #592) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carmello".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carmello. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Carmello is pronounced as kahr-MEH-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-meh-loh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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