Entry № 4931 · Spanish origin

Jimena Jimena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-MEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"El Cid's wife"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "el cid's wife".

Jimena is the Spanish feminine of Jimeno, possibly from Basque seme (son). Jimena Díaz (c. 1054-c. 1115) was the Asturian noblewoman, wife of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) — she ruled Valencia for three years after his death.

El Cid's wife — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Jimena
Transliteration
Jimena
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈmɛ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jimena stands.

Jimena 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.

Jimenas before her.

Real people
Jimena Díaz
El Cid's wife.
c. 1054 – c. 1115
Jimena Navarrete
Mexican Miss Universe.
born 1988
In fiction
Jimena
Heroine of Cantar de mio Cid.
12th c.

Names connected to Jimena.

The number behind Jimena.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jimena reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.