as a First Name
(Spanish) form of Carmel, altered by folk etymology to the form of the Latin word carmen ‘song’. It is now sometimes found as a given name in the English-speaking world, in spite of, or perhaps because of, its association with the tragic romantic heroine of Bizet's opera Carmen (1875), based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée.
| 209th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 292,582
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Florida
- has the most people named Carmen per capita
- 1968
- marked the height of its popularity
93%
7%
28%
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55+
43%
30-54
30-54
13%
13-29
13-29
16%
0-12
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