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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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
See also Carma, Carmel, Carmencita
Male
Carmenarson
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Female
Carmenardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Carmen
|
Genitive: |
Carmens
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Carmen
|
Genitive: |
Carmenin
|
Partitive: |
Carmenia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Carmen
|
Accusative: |
Carmen
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Dative: |
Carmen
|
Genitive: |
Carmenar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Carmen
|
Genitive: |
Carmens
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Carmen
|
Genitive: |
Carmens
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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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
1059 |
3908 |
1059 |
3849 |
0 |
59 |
Denmark[13] |
|
566 |
n.a. |
566 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
892 |
n.a. |
892 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[15] |
|
42 |
62 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
856 |
n.a. |
856 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [12][13][16][14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
- ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/