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Carmen is a feminine given name in the Spanish language. It has two different origins, with its first root used as a nickname for Carmel, from Hebrew karmel meaning "vineyard of God", [ 2 ] which is the name of a mountain range in the Middle East .
Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name (nombre in Spanish) and two surnames (apellidos in Spanish).. A composite given name is composed of two (or more) single names; for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename.
Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
Carmelita is a feminine given name in Spanish, Filipino and English. Notable people with this name include: Carmelita Abalos (born 1962), Filipino politician; Carmelita Abdurahman, Filipino academic in the field of linguistics; Carmelita Correa (born 1988), Mexican track and field athlete
Carmine is a male given name of Italian origins. It also has the meaning "purplish-red" from an Aramaic word qirmizī which means “crimson” in English. Notable people with the name include: Carmine Abate (born 1954), Italian writer; Carmine Abbagnale (born 1962), Italian competition rower; Carmine Agnello (born 1960), American alleged mobster
The "garden" origin is from Hebrew karmel; the "harvester" origin is from Greek Karmē; the two origins are unrelated Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a Galician and Catalan form of Hebrew karmel , "garden".
González is a Spanish surname of Germanic origin, the second most common (2.16% of the population) in Spain, [1] as well as one of the five most common surnames in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela, [2] and one of the most common surnames in the entire Spanish-speaking world.
The Annunciation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850.. Maria was a frequently given name in southern Europe even in the medieval period. In addition to the simple name, there arose a tradition of naming girls after specific titles of Mary, feast days associated with Mary and specific Marian apparitions (such as María de los Dolores, María del Pilar, María del Carmen etc., whence the derived ...