Carmela
Meaning
garden, vineyard (from Mount Carmel)
Carmela around the world
One shared root links 4 names across 3 languages.
Shared root: from Mount Carmel, Hebrew karmel "garden, orchard", by way of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; the Spanish form leans on Latin carmen "song"
The constellation
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Carmela peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,676 people · the #5,794 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 125,000 · median age 68
Among people named Carmela living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 75 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Carmela deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Carmela truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Carmela fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Carmela travels
Italian American · a warm, old-world classic
Filipino American · garden, orchard (from Mount Carmel)
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