Karmele
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾmele/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karmele is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Coined by Sabino Arana from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל (karmél).
- ESSpain1 in 65K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.7M
- COColombia≈1 in 4.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
772 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Coined by Sabino Arana from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל (karmél).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karmele 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 772 | 1 in 65K | 822 | Karmele | 81 |
| CO Colombia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Karmele | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Karmele | 7 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 44M | listed | Karmele | 9 |
| FR France | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Karmele | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.5M | — | Karmele | 8 |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | Karmele | 10 |
772 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Karmele is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, a female given name, equivalent to English Carmel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Karmele Goñib. 1926ESSpanish ethnographer and anthropologist
- Karmele Rotaetxeb. 1932ESSpanish linguist
- Karmele Esnalb. 1932ESSpanish writer
- Karmele Marchanteb. 1946ESSpanish journalist and translator
- Karmele Aranburub. 1963ESSpanish actress
- Karmele Makazagab. 1964ESSpanish handball player
- Karmele Tubilla Artetxeb. 1969ESSpanish politician
- Karmele Jaiob. 1970ESBasque writer
- Karmele Artetxe Sánchezb. 1976ESBasque national; professor at the University of the Basque Country
- Karmele Mitxelenab. 1988ESSpanish writer
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 does the name Karmele mean, and where does it come from?
- Coined by Sabino Arana from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל (karmél). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Karmele?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾmele/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Karmele a male or female name?
- Karmele 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 Karmele have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 772 people named Karmele, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karmele.
- Where is Karmele most common?
- Karmele is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karmele?
- In Spain, the national register counted 772 people named Karmele, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karmele?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karmeleThe 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, “Karmele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.