How popular is “Carmel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carmel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carmel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Carmel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Carmel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Carmel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Carmel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carmel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1888	5	0.000016696	5		100%
1890	6	0.000019907	6		100%
1891	5	0.000017441	5		100%
1892	7	0.000020935	7		100%
1894	8	0.00002362	8		100%
1896	9	0.000025176	9		100%
1897	9	0.00002594	9		100%
1898	8	0.000020972	8		100%
1899	5	0.000014739	5		100%
1900	19	0.000042198	19		100%
1901	17	0.00004916	17		100%
1902	10	0.000025858	10		100%
1903	16	0.000041973	16		100%
1904	21	0.000052047	21		100%
1905	24	0.000056614	24		100%
1906	35	0.00008169	30	5	71%
1907	26	0.000055867	26		100%
1908	33	0.000067533	27	6	64%
1909	26	0.000050858	26		100%
1910	48	0.000081258	40	8	67%
1911	55	0.000085367	49	6	78%
1912	69	0.000069834	56	13	62%
1913	77	0.000067716	54	23	40%
1914	124	0.000087549	94	30	52%
1915	131	0.00007149	108	23	65%
1916	132	0.000068238	100	32	52%
1917	131	0.00006528	92	39	40%
1918	145	0.000066786	96	49	32%
1919	128	0.000060656	105	23	64%
1920	141	0.000062317	115	26	63%
1921	160	0.000068537	121	39	51%
1922	128	0.000055916	100	28	56%
1923	172	0.000074702	137	35	59%
1924	189	0.000079358	153	36	62%
1925	176	0.00007543	139	37	58%
1926	155	0.000067512	131	24	69%
1927	133	0.000057343	113	20	70%
1928	128	0.000056614	100	28	56%
1929	135	0.000061583	109	26	61%
1930	121	0.000054424	94	27	55%
1931	105	0.000049896	87	18	66%
1932	139	0.000065836	107	32	54%
1933	88	0.000044012	71	17	61%
1934	92	0.000044299	77	15	67%
1935	80	0.000038279	63	17	57%
1936	91	0.000043801	70	21	54%
1937	85	0.000039894	63	22	48%
1938	68	0.000030733	52	16	53%
1939	88	0.000039938	65	23	48%
1940	58	0.000025188	45	13	55%
1941	86	0.000035298	68	18	58%
1942	92	0.000033677	65	27	41%
1943	71	0.000025154	51	20	44%
1944	66	0.000024535	48	18	45%
1945	75	0.000028271	58	17	55%
1946	82	0.000025663	64	18	56%
1947	102	0.000028315	88	14	73%
1948	89	0.000025778	70	19	57%
1949	78	0.000022383	60	18	54%
1950	79	0.00002255	67	12	70%
1951	91	0.000024703	75	16	65%
1952	86	0.000022643	72	14	67%
1953	80	0.00002076	69	11	73%
1954	58	0.00001457	50	8	72%
1955	145	0.000036114	136	9	88%
1956	144	0.000034926	136	8	89%
1957	151	0.000035934	143	8	89%
1958	132	0.000031931	115	17	74%
1959	132	0.000031746	122	10	85%
1960	142	0.000034185	131	11	85%
1961	115	0.000027762	108	7	88%
1962	161	0.000039897	155	6	93%
1963	134	0.000033854	124	10	85%
1964	119	0.00003061	110	9	85%
1965	88	0.000024273	83	5	89%
1966	94	0.000027045	86	8	83%
1967	71	0.000020914	71		100%
1968	100	0.0000296	94	6	88%
1969	75	0.000021581	66	9	76%
1970	89	0.000024678	83	6	87%
1971	63	0.000018355	63		100%
1972	63	0.000020045	55	8	75%
1973	47	0.000015579	47		100%
1974	62	0.000020395	54	8	74%
1975	66	0.000021859	59	7	79%
1976	43	0.000014171	43		100%
1977	46	0.000014481	40	6	74%
1978	46	0.000014493	40	6	74%
1979	46	0.000013826	46		100%
1980	55	0.000015967	49	6	78%
1981	42	0.000012141	35	7	67%
1982	34	0.000009692	29	5	71%
1983	32	0.00000924	32		100%
1984	36	0.000010319	29	7	61%
1985	45	0.000012608	37	8	64%
1986	34	0.000009558	27	7	59%
1987	52	0.000014422	42	10	62%
1988	30	0.000008119	30		100%
1989	26	0.000006763	26		100%
1990	35	0.000008855	30	5	71%
1991	33	0.000008472	27	6	64%
1992	18	0.000004686	18		100%
1993	19	0.000005039	19		100%
1994	17	0.000004573	17		100%
1995	29	0.000007919	29		100%
1996	15	0.000004113	15		100%
1997	23	0.000006344	17	6	48%
1998	18	0.000004894	13	5	44%
1999	29	0.000007851	24	5	66%
2000	18	0.000004762	18		100%
2001	24	0.000006411	24		100%
2002	20	0.00000535	15	5	50%
2003	18	0.000004734	18		100%
2004	28	0.000007328	20	8	43%
2005	25	0.000006502	19	6	52%
2006	27	0.000006825	19	8	41%
2007	34	0.000008505	27	7	59%
2008	28	0.000007123	20	8	43%
2009	30	0.000007853	20	10	33%
2010	13	0.000003518	13		100%
2011	24	0.000006561	17	7	42%
2012	25	0.000006836	18	7	44%
2013	31	0.000008503	22	9	42%
2014	29	0.000007824	21	8	45%
2015	18	0.000004864	18		100%
2016	15	0.000004089	8	7	7%
2017	26	0.00000727	20	6	54%
2018	9	0.00000256	9		100%
2019	22	0.000006338	14	8	27%
2020	18	0.000005388	13	5	44%
2021	19	0.000005608	13	6	37%
2022	26	0.000007685	20	6	54%
2023	19	0.000005738	12	7	26%
2024	34	0.000010215	28	6	65%

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