Carmen (name)

Carmen
Pronunciation kär'mĭn
Gender Male or Female
Name day 16 July
Origin
Word/name Hebrew and Latin, respectively
Meaning Song, Truthful, Poetry
Region of origin Italy, Romania, English- and Spanish-speaking countries
Other names
Related names Carmelita, Carmella, Carmela, Carmelo, Carmel, Carmine, Carme, Carmina, Karmen, Karmin
The "vineyard of God" origin is from Hebrew karmel -- the "song" origin is from Latin carmen (3rd decl subst); the two origins are unrelated

Carmen is a given name with two different origins. Its first root is Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, used as a nickname for Carmel and Carmelo (respectively), from Hebrew karmel, "God's vineyard."[1] The second origin is from Latin carmen, which means "ode" or "poem" ("Patrium Carmen": ode to the motherland) and is also the root of the English word charm. The name of the Roman Goddess Carmenta based on this root comes from the purely Latin origin, as is the fragment of archaic Latin known as "Carmen Saliare". In English, the name is unisex; in Italian, Spanish, Romanian, and Portuguese it is generally female.

Spanish name

As a Spanish given name, it is usually part of the devotional compound names María del Carmen, Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Our Lady of Carmen), or Virgen del Carmen (in English Our Lady of Mount Carmel), stemming from the tradition of the vision of Mary the mother of Jesus on 16 July 1251 by Simon Stock, head of the Carmelite order.

People

Fictional characters with the name Carmen

Fictional characters with the name Carmela

References

  1. ↑ Albaigès, Josep M.; Olivart, J.M.A. (1993). Diccionario de nombres de personas (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona. p. 69. ISBN 978-84-475-0264-6. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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