Carmelo
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Meaning
from Mount Carmel, Hebrew for 'garden' or 'vineyard'
The story
Carmelo contains a landscape. It is the Spanish and Italian masculine form of Carmel, the name of a coastal ridge rising above the Mediterranean. The old place-name is commonly understood as garden-land, and the terrain earns the image: oak and pine woodlands, carob, mastic, wild olives, caves, wind, and sea. Biblical poetry used Carmel as a picture of fertility, while later Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Druze traditions all left associations on the mountain. The personal name therefore did not begin as an abstract virtue. It grew from a real place whose green abundance could be seen from far away. A modern Carmelo does not need a religious tie or a family map pointing east. The history simply gives the name physical weather: a wooded ridge, salt air, and a word for cultivated beauty that became a person.
Carmelo across languages
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"
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How popular is Carmelo around the world?
In the United States, 2,227 babies were named Carmelo between 2020 and 2025. In Spain, 16,436 residents are named Carmelo, the 183rd most common name among men, with a mean age of 61.3 years.
Carmelo is on the official records of the United States, Spain, Canada, Argentina, England and Wales, Mexico City, France, Chile and Brazil.
United States
1 in 9,800
In the United States, 2,227 babies were named Carmelo between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Carmelo peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure. In US birth records Carmelo has stayed between 554 and 3,777 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 2,700
In Spain, 16,436 residents are named Carmelo, the 183rd most common name among men, with a mean age of 61.3 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Canada
1 in 20,000
In Canada, 18 boys named Carmelo were born in 2024, ranked 1,281st among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Argentina
1 in 25,000
In Argentina, 26 newborns were given the name Carmelo in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
England and Wales
1 in 53,000
In England and Wales, 11 boys named Carmelo were born in 2025, ranked 2,133rd among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Mexico City City
1 in 59,000
In Mexico City, there were 2 registrations of Carmelo in 2022.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
France
1 in 130,000
In France, about 5 boys named Carmelo were born in 2025, ranked 3,128th among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Chile
1 in 180,000
In Chile, 1 boy was registered as Carmelo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Brazil
1 in 250,000
At the 2022 census, 883 people in Brazil were named Carmelo, ranked 8,999th, with a median age of 60.
Among people named Carmelo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Austria
last on record 2022
Carmelo is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Montevideo City
last on record 2009
Carmelo is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Puerto Rico
last on record 2004
Carmelo is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 42 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
share of that year’s births on record
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
South Australia
last on record 2014
Carmelo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Carmelo
Most people given the name Carmelo in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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The Carmelo deep dive
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