Karmela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kar-MEL-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Karmela is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “garden, orchard”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Karmela mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Carmela; Italian and Spanish form of Carmel, via Our Lady of Mount Carmel
“garden, orchard”
An Italian and Spanish name honouring Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Hebrew karmel means 'garden, orchard'.
Meaning borrowed from Carmela.
Is Karmela a girl's or a boy's name?
Karmela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Karmela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Karmela, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1965.
Half of all the girls named Karmela in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 382 girls in the US were given Karmela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #725, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Karmela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,803 |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,538 |
Names like Karmela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Briella, Ivanna, Elianna, Liora, Isabella, Seraphina, Eliza, Eliana, Aitana, Amora, Eliora, Isla
Other spellings of Karmela
More Hebrew names
Noah, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Karmela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/karmela, updated 20 October 2026.