Is the boy name "Carman" Italian?

Question

Is the boy name "Carman" Italian?

Im wondering this because my grandfather was 100% Italian and his name was Carman and i was named after him.

Answer 1

Carman
English: from an Old Norse personal name Kar(l)ma{dh}r (accusative Kar(l)mann), composed of the elements karl ‘male’, ‘man’ + ma{dh}r ‘man’, ‘person’.
English: occupational name for a carter, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English car(re) ‘cart’ (Late Latin carrus) + Middle English man ‘man’.
Dutch: variant spelling of Karman.
Altered spelling of Germann or Korman.
Carmen
Spanish: from the Marian epithet (María del) Carmen ‘Our Lady of Carmel’, a reference to Mount Carmel (meaning ‘garden’ or ‘orchard’) in the Holy Land, which was populated from early Christian times by hermits.
Spanish: habitational name from any of various places in Spain named El Carmen, for example in the province of Cuenca.
English: variant spelling of Carman.

Answer 2

Carmine is a common Italian name. Carman is not Italian at all.
About Carmen and the opera named after it: is a female character and Italians usually don't give boys girlish names...
And most of all Carmen is spanish.
When my grand-grand father passed through the immigrations in the early 20th century the clerck at the desk miswrote his name on the papers (my ggf couldn't read or write) and so it was altered on all the papers, maybe it happend the same to you ancestors?

Answer 3

The boy's name Carmine is Italian,never heard of " Carman".

Answer 4

Yes, it is very Italian. You even get an opera named after you. People who are claiming Carmine over Carmen are forgetting regional variations.

Answer 5

Carmen is a very common name in Italy today, as well as a hundred years ago, I would say it is very safe to say , your grandfather was Italian.

Answer 6

No, the name Carman isn't Italian at all, I googled your name and I discovered an American singer of southern Italian origin, whose real name was Carmelo, a typical name from southern Italy. Most likely your grandfather's original name was Carmelo and americanized in Carman.

Answer 7

carman, no

carmine, yes

Answer 8

my friend (girl)says it is but i don't know if it is a difference between the sexes

i think it is Italian

Answer 9

According to what reads in this page:
http://www.carman.net/
Since it is to long for me to post here, maybe you want to visit
the above link

Answer 10

Probably. To be sure email your local library system.