Entry № 1763 · Catalan origin

Carme Carme — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAR-meh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Catalan
Meaning
"Mary of Mount Carmel (Catalan)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Catalan)

A name that means "mary of mount carmel (catalan)".

Carme is the Catalan form of Carmen — from the Hebrew karmel ("vineyard, garden"), the Virgin Mary's title as Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Among the most beloved Catalan feminine names. Carme Riera (born 1948) is the Mallorcan novelist and member of the Real Academia Española.

Used widely across Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands.

Mary of Mount Carmel. The Catalan.

The name in its native script.

Carme
Transliteration
Carme
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːr.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Carme stands.

Carme 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.

Carmes before her.

Real people
Carme Riera
Catalan-Mallorcan novelist.
born 1948
In fiction
Carme
Common Catalan name.

Names connected to Carme.

The number behind Carme.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Carme reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.