Carmelo

What Carmelo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Carmelo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #710 vs #2,133 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Carmelo?

US: Steady: #708 in 2015, #710 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3908 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2013, when 516 boys got the name (#515 that year). First in the US records in 1904.

How common

• About 1 in 4,531 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 24,721 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.83 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.77 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.48 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Carmelo is #710 in the US and #2133 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Carmelo were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Karmelo114 US
• Carmello44 US
• Karmello35 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Carmelo

Boys

• Cash#287Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #287 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Ryder#132From a surname for “a rider, cavalryman, or knight”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025

For a sister

• Norah#262Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Carmelo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.