Karmela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/karmela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karmela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 905as Carmela
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.9Kas Carmela
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 Karmela 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 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 named Carmela, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carmela in PE Peru, US United States, IT Italy and 2 more and כרמלה in IL Israel.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karmela 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 | — | 18,223as Carmela | 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 | 1,474 | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karmela Kosovelb. 1899ATslovene pianist
- Karmela Bélinkib. 1947FIFinnish journalist
- Karmela Liebkindb. 1949FIresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7426-1906)
- Karmela Bergb. 1950ILIsraeli artist
- Karmela Caparinb. 1954HRCroatian politician
- Karmela Vukov-Colićb. 1968HRCroatian journalist
- Karmela Shakob. 1987DEGerman actress
- Karmela Krleza-JerićHRresearcher
- Karmela BarisicDEresearcher
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.5K | #442 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 303 | #28,872 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #28,872 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What are other forms of the name Karmela?
- In the etymology graph, Carmen, Carmela and Carmelita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Karmela?
- A machine transcription gives /karmela/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Karmela a male or female name?
- Karmela 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.
- In which country does Karmela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Carmela in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karmela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karmela is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karmela?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,474 people named Karmela in 2021, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Karmela compared with other names?
- In Italy, Karmela is the 173rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karmela?
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/karmelaThe 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, “Karmela” — the 173rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.