Carmon
Feminine · “from a Marian title”
Carmon is given to both — 1,586 girls and 1,250 boys since 1880. See Carmon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Carmon writes the ending with an o, and the effect is to move the name sideways into a different category. Cannon, Harmon, Vernon, Gordon and Sharon all close the same way, and most of them are surnames. A woman's name that had a clear Spanish shape ends up looking, on the page, like a family name, which is part of why the spelling appears on the register for sons as well as daughters.
How old is the name Carmon?
Carmon first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Carmon alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 1,100 people named Carmon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Carmon most popular?
Carmon peaked in 1905, reaching #1420 nationally. See the whole 1905 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A mountain ridge in the eastern Mediterranean to Carmon
The story of Carmon
The mountain is a real ridge running down to the sea in what is now northern Israel, and it has been a religious site for a very long time. In the twelfth century a group of Latin hermits settled on it, organized themselves into a community, and took their name from the place: the Carmelites, a contemplative order that began not as a foundation by a saint but as a collection of individuals who happened to be living on the same hillside and eventually wrote a rule. The order spread across Europe, the Marian title attached to it spread with it, and in Spain the title became one of the most-used women's names in the language. That is an unusual route for a name to travel: from a geographical feature, through a group of hermits, to a title, to a name.
Meaning
from a Marian title
The Spanish name comes from a title of the Virgin attached to a mountain in the Levant, and the connection is documented and not in doubt. It is not the Latin word for a song, which is a separate word that happens to be spelled the same way, and the confusion between them is very old and very persistent. The English respelling changes nothing about the source; it changes only which family of English words the eye reaches for.
How the name formed
- A mountain ridge in the eastern Mediterranean
- A community of hermits taking their name from it
- A Marian title, and then a Spanish woman's name
- Carmon as an English respelling with a surname shape
Related forms: Carmen · Carmela · Carmo
Pronouncing Carmon
CAR-mun
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the second reduced almost to nothing. That is why the e and the o spellings sound identical: neither vowel is fully pronounced, so the letter chosen is a decision about appearance rather than about sound.
Nicknames for Carmon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 196847 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1420reached in 1905
- Change vs 2016
- 0.0%5 in 2019, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Carmon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Carmen in Spanish — spelling variant
- Carmela in Italian — related form
- Carmo in Portuguese — related form
Carmons among us
people named Carmon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Carmon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is completely familiar and will never need repeating.
- It works on the register for either child, which the record confirms.
- It has a genuine and traceable Spanish history rather than an invented one.
- Carmen is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected into it constantly.
- The o ending makes it read as a surname on paper, which cuts both ways.
- The old confusion with the Latin word for a song will follow the name wherever it goes.
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Frequently asked
- How many Carmons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Carmon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Carmon in 2025?
- Carmon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Carmon with classmates?
- Carmon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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