Carmen (given name)


Carmen is a given name with two different origins. Its first root is Spanish and Italian and used as a nickname for Carmel and Carmelo, from Hebrew karmel, "God's vineyard"., which is the name of a mountain range in northern Israel. The second origin is from Latin carmen, which means "ode" or "poem" 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 Spanish, Romanian, and Portuguese it is generally female, though in Italian it is frequently male.

Spanish name

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

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