Carmine

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Carmine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Alessandro
• Domenico
• Alessio
• Garnet
• Giacomo

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Carmine is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian given name22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Brazil, Venezuela

  Languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Carminé, Carmiñe, Cármine, Çärminê, Cârmįnē

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Carminé, Cármine

• Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Indonesia, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Carmîne

• Greek given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, Italy, United States

  Also written Karmine, Càrmìnè, Καρμινε

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Carmine is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Prénom lié au latin carmen (« chant ») ou à Carmélide; évoque aussi la peau et l’orphelin dans l’interprétation fournie.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Forme italienne liée à Carmen/Carmelo, « chant » ou Carmel.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Latin, ablative singular of carmen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, inflection of carminar:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Carmine Coppolab. 1910USAmerican composer (1910-1991)
• Carmine Caridib. 1934USAmerican actor (1934-2019)
• Sebastian Ingrossob. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish disc jockey and record producer of Italian descent

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Carmine a male or female name?

Carmine is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes; Italy (ISTAT, 2024): listed as male; Spain (INE): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.

What does the name Carmine mean, and where does it come from?

A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Carmine?

In Italian /ˈkar.mi.ne/ (Wiktionary).

How common is the name Carmine?

In the United States, the national register counted 8,464 people named Carmine in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.

How common is Carmine compared with other names?

In Italy, Carmine is the 992nd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

What are other forms of the name Carmine?

In the etymology graph, Carmelo is a form of the same name in other languages.

Which countries have the most people named Carmine?

Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Carmine in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carmine. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.