Carmen (first name)

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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

Name bearer

Name bearers

Variant "Camelia"

Variant "Carmel"

Variant "Carmela"

Variant "Carmella"

Variant "Carmina"

Fictional people

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Gesenius: Concise dictionary on the Old Testament . Berlin 1962, p. 636 .