Carmelo is the Italian and Spanish masculine form of Carmel, the name of the mountain in Israel that means "garden" or "orchard" in Hebrew; it honors Our Lady of Mount Carmel and is common in Sicily and Latin America. Basketball star Carmelo Anthony is the name's best-known American bearer and the reason for its rise in the 2000s. Carmelo ranked number 1994 in the United States in 2000, entered the top 1000 in 2004, peaked at number 515 in 2013 and ranks number 712 in 2025.