Names That Mean Garden
- Carminho
Origin:
Diminutive of Carmo, PortugueseMeaning:
"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.
- Carmi
Origin:
Diminutive of Carmen or Carmelo, Hebrew, Spanish and ItalianMeaning:
"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.
- Carme
Origin:
Catalan and Galician form of Carmel, HebrewMeaning:
"garden"Description:
Currently considered a grandma name in Catalonia, but fresh and unusual (though easily confused with Karma) elsewhere.
- Gardner
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"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.
- Rawdah
Origin:
ArabicMeaning:
"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.
- Carmi
Origin:
Diminutive of Carmen or Carmella, Hebrew, Spanish, and ItalianMeaning:
"garden"Description:
A short and sweet diminutive that has the fashionable -i ending.
- Carmelina
Origin:
Variation of Carmela, Italian and SpanishMeaning:
"garden"
- Gardener
Origin:
LatinMeaning:
"keeper of the garden"Description:
One of the most pleasant and evocative of the hot new occupational names. Related name: Gardner, as in Ava.