Carmine
Fewer than 65 people in Poland carry it, and no boys were given it last year: most Poles have never met a Carmine. An Italian name at root, from the Latin for the garden of Mount Carmel.
Carmine Pronunciation
Carmine is pronounced tsahr-MEE-ne (/t͡sarˈminɛ/).
What Carmine means
Where Carmine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Carmine comes to Italy through Latin, from the Hebrew place-name Karmel, the garden or vineyard on Mount Carmel. Its short meaning in English keeps that ground: vineyard, garden, the green slope above the sea in what is now Israel. Italian families took it as a devotional name for the Madonna del Carmine, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whose feast falls on 16 July.
The crimson sense, the karmazynowa czerwień a Polish reader might expect, came later. The pigment carmine and the name sound like near-twins, so the color attached itself to the word. The origin sits in the garden. The dye only borrowed the sound.
Carmine is a man's name in Italy, borne by the composer Carmine Coppola, father of the film director Francis Ford Coppola. No diminutives or variants sit beside it here. A Polish class register would show it rarely, an Italian import among the Kamils. The name points back to one hill: Mount Carmel, the garden above the water.
How many people are named Carmine
1 in 361800 men in Poland is named Carmine. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4653 among male names.
Carmine as a middle name
Carmine is a first name for 62 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2749th, between Buǧra (12) and Chidubem (12).
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#2747 Burkhard12
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#2748 Buǧra12
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#2749 Carmine12
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#2750 Chidubem12
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#2751 Chinh12