Names That Mean Garden

  1. Carminho
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Carmo, Portuguese
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      Carminho is a Portuguese singer who popularized her stage name — she was born Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade. Carminho is a nickname for Carmo, the Portuguese form of the Hebrew name Carmel.
  2. Carmi
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Carmen or Carmelo, Hebrew, Spanish and Italian
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      This old-school short form is showing signs of life thanks to the FX series The Bear, featuring Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto. The Carmi spelling updates it for a 21st-century baby.
  3. Carme
    • Origin:

      Catalan and Galician form of Carmel, Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      Currently considered a grandma name in Catalonia, but fresh and unusual (though easily confused with Karma) elsewhere.
  4. Gardner
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "keeper of the garden"
    • Description:

      One of the best of this fashionable occupational group, strong and particularly well suited to a girl, also with alluring connection to glamour girl Ava Gardner.
  5. Rawdah
    • Origin:

      Arabic
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      This Muslim girls' name has never gotten much use in the US, but Somali model Rawdah Mohamed may draw more attention to her name.
  6. Carmi
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Carmen or Carmella, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      A short and sweet diminutive that has the fashionable -i ending.
  7. Carmelina
    • Origin:

      Variation of Carmela, Italian and Spanish
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
  8. Gardener
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "keeper of the garden"
    • Description:

      One of the most pleasant and evocative of the hot new occupational names. Related name: Gardner, as in Ava.