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UnisexOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: rising

CarmelIn Hebrew: כרמל · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: כַּרְמֶלRomanization: karmél

Carmel (Hebrew: כרמל) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 6,383 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 211 girls and ranked #94. Its peak year was 2018, with 365 babies.

People in Israel
6,383
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
211
rank #94
Peak year
2018
365 babies
USA, 2025
26
rank #4,987

Writing and saying Carmel

In Hebrew letters the name is כרמל, read right to left. Carmel is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "karmél" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a unisex given name
Probably כֶּרֶם (kérem, “vineyard [of]”) + אֵל ('él, “God”).

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Carmel by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Carmel: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Carmel in English-speaking countries

Carmel in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202526#4,9871962 (155)
United Kingdom20255#4,2762008 (30)
England and Wales20255#4,2002008 (30)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Carmel has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Carmel

How do you write Carmel in Hebrew?

Carmel is written כרמל in Hebrew (with vowel points: כַּרְמֶל). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "karmél".

How many people in Israel are named Carmel?

6,383 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name כרמל: 4,747 women and 1,636 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Carmel a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 74% of the people named כרמל are women and 26% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Carmel mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a unisex given name" Etymology: Probably כֶּרֶם (kérem, “vineyard [of]”) + אֵל ('él, “God”).

Is Carmel used outside Israel?

The name Carmel appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 26 girls were given it in 2025 (#4,987), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 5 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.