Carmine
About 14,437 American babies have been named Carmine since 1891, most of them around 2006. In 2025 it ranked 1,034th. About 7,900 Carmines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carmine boys named Carmine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,437
- Estimated living today
- 7,900
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 789th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,034th
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 487 / 13,950
How old the living Carmines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,437 babies given the name since 1891, about 7,900 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
The given name is borrowed from Italian Carmine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Carmines
- Carmine Crocco (1830–1905)Italian brigand
- Carmine Coppola (1910–1991)American composer
- Carmine Giovinazzo (born 1973)American actor
- Carmine Appice (born 1946)American drummer
- Carmine Gallone (1885–1973)Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- Carmine Caridi (1934–2019)American actor
- Carmine Infantino (1925–2013)American comic book artist
- Carmine Galante (1910–1979)American Mafia boss
People named Carmine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carmine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carmine is most concentrated in New York (7.4×), New Jersey (6.8×), Connecticut (4.1×), Rhode Island (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Carmine peaked:
Carmine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Carmine | 10,873 | — |
| France boys | Carmine | 230 | 473rd |
| Switzerland boys | Carmine | 61 | 654th |
| England and Wales boys | Carmine | 51 | 2,443rd |
| France girls | Carmine | 30 | 4,665th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Carmine: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Carmine | 46 | 0.004% | 520th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Carmine | 7 | 0.002% | 591st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Carmine | 7 | 0.011% | 131st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Carmine | 1 | 0.027% | 11th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Where Carmine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 225 men called Carmine were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Carmine | 32 | 0.060 | 1,375 |
| Palmas, Las | Carmine | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Girona | Carmine | 7 | 0.017 | 2,753 |
| Valencia/València | Carmine | 21 | 0.016 | 2,859 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Carmine | 5 | 0.016 | 2,876 |
| Balears, Illes | Carmine | 10 | 0.016 | 3,165 |
Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Carmine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.