Carmelo
Rare in Poland: only 51 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one. The name comes from Latin, tied to Mount Carmel, whose name means "garden".
Carmelo Pronunciation
Carmelo is pronounced tsahr-ME-lo (/t͡sarˈmɛlɔ/).
What Carmelo means
Where Carmelo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Carmelo reaches Latin through the name of a mountain. Carmelus was the Roman form of Mount Carmel, the ridge above Haifa, and the Hebrew word behind it, karmel, means garden or orchard. The short meaning, garden, sits in the place the name points to.
In Italy and Spain the name grew up beside religion. The Carmelite order took its name from that same ridge, and families gave Carmelo in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whose feast falls on 16 July. The feast fixes the day. A boy named Carmelo often shared his name-day with it.
The name held on in the south, in Sicily above all. Carmelo Bene, the Italian actor and director, carried it through the twentieth century, from the stage into film. So the meaning is old and plain. Behind Carmelo stands a mountain whose Hebrew name, karmel, means garden.
How many people are named Carmelo
1 in 418553 men in Poland is named Carmelo. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5257 among male names.
Carmelo as a middle name
Carmelo is a first name for 51 men in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1915th, between Brendon (21) and Cesare (21).
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#1913 Bikram21
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#1914 Brendon21
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#1915 Carmelo21
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#1916 Cesare21
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#1917 Dat21