The name Carmen has two different origins. It is derived from the Latin word ‘carmen’ for ‘song’, and it is the female form of the Hebrew name Carmel, which means ‘God’s vineyard’.
Carmen is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
The name Carmen isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Carmen ranks 374. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Carmen. In the entire USA, approximately 148,584 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Carmen. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Carmen has two different origins. It is derived from the Latin word ‘carmen’ for ‘song’, and it is the female form of the Hebrew name Carmel, which means ‘God’s vineyard’.
Carmen, which means... song', is also the title of multiple songs, for example a 2012 version by Lana Del Rey and a 2015 version by Stromae.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Carmen is one of them. However, Carmen is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,503 women called Carmen who live here are 0,317% of all female residents and push their name up to #72, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in New Mexico.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Carmen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Carmen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Carmen, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Mouse
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carmen
Carmen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
M
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
R
M
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Carmen sounds like this:
