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How popular is “Carmela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carmela” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carmela” 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 “Carmela” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carmela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carmela” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1888 17 0.000056766 17 100%
1889 15 0.000051913 15 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1891 18 0.000062789 18 100%
1892 14 0.000041869 14 100%
1893 19 0.000058421 19 100%
1894 31 0.000091529 31 100%
1895 37 0.000105407 37 100%
1896 33 0.000092312 33 100%
1897 32 0.00009223 32 100%
1898 38 0.000099619 38 100%
1899 49 0.000144443 49 100%
1900 57 0.000126594 57 100%
1901 44 0.000127237 44 100%
1902 61 0.000157732 61 100%
1903 69 0.000181007 69 100%
1904 78 0.000193316 78 100%
1905 88 0.000207585 88 100%
1906 94 0.000219395 94 100%
1907 113 0.000242807 113 100%
1908 105 0.000214878 105 100%
1909 106 0.000207346 106 100%
1910 140 0.000237003 140 100%
1911 172 0.000266966 172 100%
1912 213 0.000215574 213 100%
1913 238 0.000209303 238 100%
1914 341 0.000240761 341 100%
1915 430 0.000234662 430 100%
1916 451 0.000233145 451 100%
1917 479 0.000238694 479 100%
1918 517 0.000238127 517 100%
1919 480 0.000227462 480 100%
1920 513 0.000226726 513 100%
1921 564 0.000241593 564 100%
1922 574 0.000250747 574 100%
1923 586 0.000254508 586 100%
1924 578 0.000242693 578 100%
1925 565 0.000242146 565 100%
1926 524 0.000228232 524 100%
1927 529 0.00022808 529 100%
1928 500 0.000221147 500 100%
1929 497 0.000226717 497 100%
1930 457 0.000205551 457 100%
1931 363 0.000172497 363 100%
1932 384 0.000181879 384 100%
1933 305 0.000152542 305 100%
1934 275 0.000132414 275 100%
1935 252 0.00012058 252 100%
1936 233 0.00011215 233 100%
1937 209 0.000098091 209 100%
1938 209 0.00009446 209 100%
1939 198 0.000089859 198 100%
1940 196 0.000085118 196 100%
1941 176 0.000072237 176 100%
1942 196 0.000071747 196 100%
1943 203 0.000071921 203 100%
1944 141 0.000052415 141 100%
1945 156 0.000058803 156 100%
1946 154 0.000048196 154 100%
1947 176 0.000048857 176 100%
1948 172 0.000049819 172 100%
1949 161 0.000046201 161 100%
1950 183 0.000052236 183 100%
1951 153 0.000041534 153 100%
1952 174 0.000045814 174 100%
1953 148 0.000038405 148 100%
1954 141 0.000035421 141 100%
1955 148 0.000036861 148 100%
1956 183 0.000044385 183 100%
1957 181 0.000043073 181 100%
1958 190 0.000045961 190 100%
1959 219 0.00005267 219 100%
1960 213 0.000051278 213 100%
1961 221 0.000053352 221 100%
1962 252 0.000062448 252 100%
1963 206 0.000052044 206 100%
1964 225 0.000057876 225 100%
1965 192 0.000052959 192 100%
1966 195 0.000056105 195 100%
1967 205 0.000060385 205 100%
1968 182 0.000053871 182 100%
1969 199 0.000057261 199 100%
1970 176 0.000048801 176 100%
1971 164 0.000047781 164 100%
1972 151 0.000048043 151 100%
1973 141 0.000046737 141 100%
1974 142 0.000046711 142 100%
1975 162 0.000053653 162 100%
1976 134 0.000044162 134 100%
1977 114 0.000035889 114 100%
1978 116 0.000036548 116 100%
1979 100 0.000030057 100 100%
1980 132 0.000038322 132 100%
1981 104 0.000030063 104 100%
1982 107 0.000030502 107 100%
1983 85 0.000024543 85 100%
1984 72 0.000020638 67 5 86%
1985 94 0.000026337 94 100%
1986 73 0.000020522 73 100%
1987 72 0.000019969 72 100%
1988 78 0.000021109 78 100%
1989 83 0.00002159 83 100%
1990 81 0.000020493 81 100%
1991 67 0.0000172 67 100%
1992 78 0.000020306 78 100%
1993 58 0.000015383 58 100%
1994 65 0.000017484 65 100%
1995 69 0.000018841 69 100%
1996 63 0.000017274 63 100%
1997 59 0.000016272 59 100%
1998 55 0.000014953 55 100%
1999 79 0.000021387 79 100%
2000 56 0.000014815 56 100%
2001 68 0.000018165 68 100%
2002 78 0.000020865 78 100%
2003 98 0.000025774 98 100%
2004 110 0.000028789 110 100%
2005 124 0.000032251 124 100%
2006 124 0.000031343 124 100%
2007 119 0.000029767 119 100%
2008 113 0.000028748 113 100%
2009 115 0.000030103 115 100%
2010 94 0.000025435 94 100%
2011 101 0.000027612 101 100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 100%
2013 117 0.000032093 117 100%
2014 123 0.000033186 123 100%
2015 113 0.000030533 113 100%
2016 117 0.000031891 117 100%
2017 114 0.000031877 114 100%
2018 115 0.000032709 115 100%
2019 149 0.000042928 149 100%
2020 138 0.00004131 138 100%
2021 135 0.000039847 135 100%
2022 131 0.000038721 131 100%
2023 153 0.000046207 153 100%
2024 208 0.000062491 208 100%

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