Carmen (first name)
Carmen is a female as well as male given name and family name .
Name meaning
Carmen is a Spanish given name, which is also used in other languages, in the English-speaking world also as a male first name.
It refers to María del Carmen , Nuestra Señora del Carmen ( Our Lady on Mount Carmel ) or Virgen del Carmen ( Virgin on Mount Carmel ), with the Scapular Festival (July 16) as a memorial day, and thus to Mary who Patron saint of the Church of Mount Carmel ( Hebrew כרמל; The derivation of kerem el , “God's vineyard”, is folk etymology, the Hebrew carmel means “(fruit) garden”; Arabic جبل الكرمل Jebel al-Karmal ) thefirst Carmelite monastery foundedat the time of the Crusades . The name was given following an apparition of Mary by the Prior General of the Carmelite Order Simon Stock on Sunday, July 16, 1251 in Cambridge .
The Spanish name Carmen is originally a diminutive of the name Carmel, with the "l" being replaced by an "n" based on the Latin word carmen , which means "song, song" or "poem". The "l" has been retained in the Carmelo variant of the name .
name day
16th of July
variants
- Carmela (Italian, Spanish)
- Camalia (Italian)
- Camarita (Australian)
- Cameile (Australian)
- Camela (French)
- Camelai (Latin)
- Camelia (US, Danish, Italian, Latin, Romanian)
- Camelias (French)
- Camelie (Danish)
- Carmaine (Greek)
- Carmal (Australian)
- Carmaletia (Australian)
- Carme (Catalan)
- Carmel
- Carmela
- Carmella
- Carmelia (French)
- Carmelina (Hebrew, Italian, Spanish)
- Carmina
- Carmine (Italian)
- Carminella (Australian)
- Carmel (Hebrew, Basque, Latin)
- Karmela (Hebrew)
- Carmel (Basque, French)
- Carmeli (Hebrew)
- Karmella (French, Hebrew)
- Carmelle (Hebrew, Latin)
- Karmiela (French, Hebrew)
- Carmine (Latin)
- Karmina (British, American)
- Karmite (French, Hebrew)
- Karmiya (Hebrew)
Name bearer
- Carmen Argenziano (1943–2019), American actor and drama teacher
- Carmen Cavallaro (1913–1989), American musician and film actor
- Carmen Finestra (born 1947), American television producer and actor
Name bearers
- Carmen Amaya (around 1915–1963), Spanish flamenco dancer
- Carmen-Maja Antoni (* 1945), German actress
- Carmen Blazejewski (* 1954), German filmmaker and writer
- Carmen Boullosa (* 1954), Mexican writer
- Carmen Casanova (* 1980), Swiss ski racer
- Carmen Chaplin (* 1972), American-Spanish-French actress
- Carmen Daniela (* 1951), Austrian pianist
- Carmen Electra (* 1972), American actress, singer and model
- Carmen Franke (* 1973), German TV presenter
- Carmen Fuggiss (* 1963), German opera and operetta singer (soprano)
- Carmen Giannattasio (* 1975), Italian opera singer (soprano)
- Carmen Herrera (* 1915), American painter of concrete art
- Carmen Ionesco (* 1951), Canadian shot putter and discus thrower
- Carmen Jordá (* 1988), Spanish racing car driver
- Carmen Kaminsky (* 1962), German philosopher
- Carmen Korn (* 1952), German writer and journalist
- Carmen Krüger (* 1966), German politician (CDU)
- Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Spanish writer
- Carmen Miranda (1909–1955), Portuguese-Brazilian singer and actress
- Carmen Nebel (* 1956), German television presenter
- Carmen Yvonne Parris (1927–2008), Jamaican diplomat
- Carmen Prinz (* 1960), German badminton player
- Carmen Roth (* 1979), German soccer player and trainer
- Carmen Schäfer (* 1981), Swiss curler
- Carmen Stadelhofer (* 1947), German educator and scientist
- Carmen Stephan (* 1974), German writer and journalist
- Carmen Thomas (* 1946), German journalist, author and lecturer
- Carmen Velasquez (1913–1994), Filipino parasitologist
- Carmen Winter (* 1963), German writer
Variant "Camelia"
- Camélia Jordana (* 1992), French singer and actress
- Camelia Lupașcu (* 1986), Romanian rower
- Camelia Ethel MacDonald (1909–1960), Scottish anarchist and activist
- Camelia Macoviciuc (* 1968), Romanian rower
- Camelia Potec (* 1982), Romanian swimmer and Olympic champion
- Camelia Toader (* 1963), Romanian lawyer
- Camelia Voinea (* 1970), Romanian gymnast
Variant "Carmel"
- Carmel Bodel (1912–2013), American figure skater
- Carmel Busuttil (* 1964), Maltese football player
- Carmel McCourt (* 1958), British singer, see Carmel (singer)
- Carmel McSharry (1926-2018), Irish actress
Variant "Carmela"
- Carmela Corren (* 1938), Israeli pop singer
- Carmela de Feo (* 1973), German musician and comedian
- Carmela Künzel , German beauty queen and actress
- Carmela Schmidt (* 1962), German swimmer
- Carmela Zumbado (* 1991), American actress
Variant "Carmella"
- Carmella DeCesare (* 1982), American model and former wrestler
- Carmella Flöck (1898–1982), Austrian resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor
- Leah Van Dale (* 1987), American model and wrestler, see Carmella (wrestler)
Variant "Carmina"
- Carmina Brenner (* 1957), German politician (CDU)
Fictional people
- The name of the thief in the children's program Hunt around the world - snaps Carmen Sandiego / Where is Carmen Sandiego? as well as the computer game series is Carmen .
- Carmen Cru is the protagonist of a completed comic series by the French cartoonist and scenario artist Lelong ( Jean-Marc Lelong , born February 1, 1949, † February 24, 2004).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Gesenius: Concise dictionary on the Old Testament . Berlin 1962, p. 636 .