girls:
62 births since 1956
#5654 (1st percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1916
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
108 births since 1916
#7631 (1st percentile)
The name Carmi is the #7,631 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 108 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,654 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1956. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1916.
Carmi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Carmi is available in 17 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (11 years for girls and 8 years for boys). 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 Carmi has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (57.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Carmi were girls. Interestingly, until around 1958, the name was more popular for boys (84.8% boys from 1916 to 1957), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (76.0% girls from 1958 to 2023).
For girls, Carmi reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #754) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Carmi reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #544) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Carmi ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 71.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carmi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carmi is pronounced as KAHR-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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