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Carmen

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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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] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Latin carmen = 'song' [1] [2] [3] [5]

Related Names

Carmen ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Karmen ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Carma, Carmel, Carmencita

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Carmenarson Iceland

Female

Carmenardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Carmen
Genitive: Carmens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Carmen
Genitive: Carmenin
Partitive: Carmenia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Carmen
Accusative: Carmen
Dative: Carmen
Genitive: Carmenar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Carmen
Genitive: Carmens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Carmen
Genitive: Carmens

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 445 people were named Carmen (percentage of first or only given name: 56 %) [11]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
1059 3908 1059 3849 0 59
Denmark Denmark[13]
566
n.a.
 566
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 892
n.a.
 892 0 0
Iceland Iceland[15]
42 62
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
856
n.a.
 856
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Carmen (f) Sources: [12][13][16][14]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  9. ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  10. ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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