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Diminutive of Carmen or Carmella, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian
"garden"
A short and sweet diminutive that has the fashionable -i ending.
English
"keeper of the garden"
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.
Hebrew
"clever"
Tanya with a G.
Variation of Kamala, Hindi, Hawaiian
"lotus or pale red; or, a garden"
Variation of Kamala.
Latin
"of the garden"
Variant of Hortensia, an unusual floral name and the name of a secondary character in Roald Dahl's Matilda .
Spanish
Hortensio was derived from the Ancient Roman cognomen Hortensius, as were the more familiar names Hortensia and Hortense. In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , Hortensio is a suitor of Bianca.
Diminutive of Carmo, Portuguese
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…
Catalan and Galician form of Carmel, Hebrew
Currently considered a grandma name in Catalonia, but fresh and unusual (though easily confused with Karma) elsewhere.
English from Latin
"garden yard"
Gardener is surely one of the most pleasant and evocative of the occupational options, calling up images of green grass and budding blooms. The name can also be spelled without the first ' e ', as in…
Scottish
"garden of holly"
Lesley as a masculine name derives from Scottish habitational surname origins, combining elements meaning "garden of holly" or "holly meadow." Though now more commonly used for girls in the United…
Hortensia is an ancient Roman name that's also the common name of the flower hydrangea. The French form of the name is Hortense, which is coming back into style in Paris but has never caught on in…
Chinese
"book + garden"
Shuyuan is a strong academic name with roots in Imperial China. Translated to English as Academies of Classic Learning or merely Academies, shuyuan were private institutions for scholars, often in…
Hortense is actually the French feminine form of Hortensia, the name of a strong, politically active early Roman woman. Hortense began to be used in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth…
One of the most pleasant and evocative of the hot new occupational names. Related name: Gardner, as in Ava.
Shuyuan is an erudite name with connections to Imperial China. Translated to English as Academies of Classic Learning or merely Academies, shuyuan were private institutions for scholars, often in…