Meaning of name Carmen

The name Carmen has the following meaning:

This name can be given to both baby boys and girls. It is a unisex name.

As a baby girl name, Carmen is currently a popular baby name, with a recent overall USA popularity ranking of 262 out of 1000 (source: 2000s U.S. Census).

In 2009, the name Carmen fell in popularity and moved down the USA Top 1000 charts in Year 2009, by 39 places. For the Year 2009, it ranked 302 in the Top 1000 charts.

The following chart shows the popularity of the name Carmen in the USA, over the past 100 years.

The name Carmen is very likely a(n) Spanish variant of the name Carmel. See other suggested Spanish baby names.

You might also like to see the other variants of the name Carmel.

The following names are baby names related to Carmen and are suitable names for brothers and sisters of Carmen: Boys - Enos, Isaac, Jacob, Uriel, Girls - Elta, Mozelle, Rebecca, Zella, Both genders - Anna, Ariel, Betty, Dagan, Dagen, Dalit

The name Carmen is a variant of Carmel. Other popular variants of the name Carmel are: Carma, Carmaletta, Carmanaya, Carmarit, Carmela (Italian), Carmelia, Carmelit, Carmelita (Spanish), Carmelitha, Carmella (English), Carmellia, Carmen (Spanish), Carmesha, Carmilla

We think the name Carmen should fall under the following style category: Everlasting.

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Based on our research, most people would imagine a person with the name Carmen to be: A bouncy, up-beat girl who is always optimistic

In one word, you might describe Carmen as a(n) "up-beat" person.

See other "up-beat" names for boys and girls.