Carmen

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Spanish name deriving from La Virgin de Monte Carmen = 'The Virgin of Mount Karmel (= Virgin Mary)'. Karmel is a mountain mentioned in the Old Testament, Hebrew כַּרְמֶל (karmel) = 'garden' ^{[1] [2]}

2) Latin carmen = 'song' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Carmen	♀
Karmen	♀

See also Carmela, Carmencita

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Carmen
Accusative:	Carmen
Dative:	Carmen
Genitive:	Carmenar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1879 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		892	3561	0	68
Denmark[4]		362	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		258	595	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	533	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][5][6]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi