Entry № 4921 · 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.

Heroine of the medieval epic Cantar de mio Cid.

El Cid's wife. Ruled Valencia for three years after his death.

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.