Carme as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Carme

What is the meaning of the name Carme ?

The baby name Carme is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KAR-meh.

Carme is Catalan, Galician, Greek, Hebrew in Origin.

Carme has two unrelated etymologies. In Catalan and Galician naming it is a vernacular form of Carmen, ultimately from Hebrew karmel, the place-name and common noun for a cultivated garden, orchard, or vineyard; the earliest form is Biblical Hebrew כַּרְמֶל, Karmel, probably built on kerem, vineyard, with a locative or collective ending. Separately, Greek mythology preserves Κάρμη, Karmē, analyzed from the verb keirein or keirō, to cut or shear, hence a name interpreted as grain-cutter or harvester.

The Iberian name belongs especially to Catalan-speaking and Galician contexts, reinforced by devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Carmelite tradition; Spanish normally uses Carmen, while Catalan records Carme in public life, as with Carme Riera and Carme Ruscalleda. Related Romance forms include Carmela, Carmelina, Carmelita, Carmina, and Portuguese Carmo. The Greek Carme is rarer as a personal name and is chiefly known from myth, where Carme is associated with Crete.