Carmela

כַּרְמֶלָּה

• Gender: Female
• Origin: Modern Hebrew
• Meaning: garden

• Carmela is a variant of Carmel, the Hebrew name meaning "garden" that also refers to the storied mountain along Israel's Mediterranean coast. Where Carmel has a clean, unisex simplicity, Carmela adds a warm, feminine ending that gives it a distinctly romantic quality. The name appears across Jewish and Italian naming traditions alike, giving it wonderful cross-cultural appeal.

  Say it out loud and you will hear the Mediterranean warmth — a feminine flourish on the already gorgeous Carmel that sounds at home in both Tel Aviv and Tuscany. It has the lyrical, vowel-rich quality that parents love right now without sounding trendy or invented. For families who want a name that conjures Israeli hillsides and biblical gardens with the romantic lilt of an Italian sunset, Carmela delivers on every count.

• Alternate Spellings: Karmela, Carmella, Karmella
• Potential Sibling Name:
  Avigail
  ,
  Dahlia
  ,
  Gil
  ,
  Barak
• Theme: Israel, nature