Names That Mean Garden

  1. Carmi
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Carmen or Carmelo, Hebrew, Spanish and Italian
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      This old-school short form is showing signs of life thanks to the FX series The Bear, featuring Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto. The Carmi spelling updates it for a 21st-century baby.
  2. Ganya
    • Origin:

      Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "clever"
    • Description:

      Tanya with a G.
  3. Ortensia
    • Origin:

      Latin
    • Meaning:

      "of the garden"
    • Description:

      Variant of Hortensia, an unusual floral name and the name of a secondary character in Roald Dahl's Matilda.
  4. Layton
    • Origin:

      Old English
    • Meaning:

      "settlement with a leek garden"
    • Description:

      The most popular variation of this name for baby girls is Leighton, as in Leighton Meester, the actress who introduced her name to the mainstream when she rose to fame on Gossip Girl.
  5. Gardner
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "keeper of the garden"
    • Description:

      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.
  6. Kumala
    • Origin:

      Variation of Kamala, Hindi, Hawaiian
    • Meaning:

      "lotus or pale red; or, a garden"
    • Description:

      Variation of Kamala.
  7. Carme
    • Origin:

      Catalan and Galician form of Carmel, Hebrew
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      Currently considered a grandma name in Catalonia, but fresh and unusual (though easily confused with Karma) elsewhere.
  8. Carminho
    • Origin:

      Diminutive of Carmo, Portuguese
    • Meaning:

      "garden"
    • Description:

      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 Carmel.