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Girl · Hebrew, through Italian
Carmela
Say it: kar-MEH-lah
Meaning
From Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Hebrew karmel means 'garden, orchard'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 23,691 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1911, about 1 in 2,400 girls
- 138 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Carmelina
| Spanish | Carmela |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Carmen |
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.