Carmela
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a diminutive of the female given name Carmen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/karmela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carmela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 905(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carmela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 905 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled כרמלה in IL Israel and Karmela in HR Croatia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of )\Carmel (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carmela is read(measured from records)
Carmela is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish41%
a diminutive of the female given name Carmen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English35%
Italian: the beloved one
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Italian11%
a female given name, equivalent to English Carmel or Spanish Carmen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Carmela, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carmela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #173 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | 58 | Carmela | 166 |
| PH Philippines | #794 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Carmela | 97 |
| US United States | — | 18,223 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Carmela | 295 |
| PE Peru | #368 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Carmela | 59 |
| AR Argentina | #802 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 242 | Carmela | 67 |
| IL Israel | #259 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 77 | כרמלה | 29 |
| HR Croatia | #434 | 1,474as Karmela | 1 in 2.9K | 1.5K | Karmela | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carmela is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Italian form of )\Carmel (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Se Melina.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Viña de Dios, del monte Carmelo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carmela Kalaib. 1926ILIsraeli painter and sculptor
- Carmela Roffeb. 1930ILIsraeli painter
- Carmela Cohenb. 1934ILIsraeli painter
- Carmela Correnb. 1938ILIsraeli singer and actress (1938–2022)
- Carmela Catavib. 1943ILIsraeli painter
- Carmela Grossb. 1946BRBrazilian visual artist and educator (born 1946)
- Carmen Russob. 1959ITnot in their usual nameItalian reality television personality, singer, actress, dancer (born 1959)
- Gegiab. 1959ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor, television presenter and singer (born 1959)
- Carmela de Feob. 1973DEGerman musician and actor
- Carmela Zumbadob. 1991USAmerican actress and social media personality
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,696 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 242 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 242 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 186 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 181 | #536 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 58 | #287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #1,696 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15 | #4,410 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Carmela come from?
- Italian form of )\Carmel (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Carmela?
- In the etymology graph, Carmen, Carmelita and Carmella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Carmela mean?
- In Spanish, a diminutive of the female given name Carmen
- How do you pronounce Carmela?
- A machine transcription gives /karmela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Carmela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Carmela in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carmela.
- Is Carmela a male or female name?
- Carmela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Carmela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,223 people named Carmela in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Carmela compared with other names?
- In Italy, Carmela is the 173rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carmela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carmelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carmela” — the 173rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.