Boy · Hebrew, through Italian
Carmine
Say it: KAR-mee-neh
Meaning
From Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Madonna del Carmine); Hebrew karmel 'garden, orchard'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1910s
In the United States
- 13,550 babies given this name since 1891
- At its height in 1912, about 1 in 4,100 boys
- 132 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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