Entry № 1756 · French origin

Capucine Capucine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-poo-SEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Nasturtium flower"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "nasturtium flower".

Capucine is the French word for the nasturtium flower — itself named after the Capuchin monks' hoods, which the flower's shape resembles.

Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre, 1928-1990) was the French actress and model. The name remains widely used in France.

Nasturtium. The French actress.

The name in its native script.

Capucine
Transliteration
Capucine
Pronunciation
/ ˌkæp.uːˈsiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Capucine stands.

Capucine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Capucines before her.

Real people
Capucine
French actress.
1928 – 1990
In fiction
Capucine
Common in French fiction.

Names connected to Capucine.

The number behind Capucine.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Capucine reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.