Surname meaning and origin
Jiménez
Spanish: Son of Jimeno
Pronounced hee-MEH-nes (Spanish [xiˈme.nes]; US English hih-MEN-ez)
Where the name comes from
- SpanishSon of JimenoJimeno, a medieval personal namePatronymic. DAFN: "Spanish (Jiménez): patronymic from the medieval personal name Jimeno." Jimeno (Latin Scemeno) belongs to the early medieval Basque-Navarrese area; the patronymic appears in the 10th-century Códice de Roda genealogies (per Wikipedia, not DAFN). Older spellings with X- (Ximénez, Ximenes) reflect Spanish spelling before the late-18th-century reform. The origin of the Spanish -ez patronymic ending is debated: proposals include a Latin genitive, a pre-Roman (Iberian or Basque) suffix, and Latinized Gothic genitives; none is settled.
Jiménez across traditions
- Navarre. An early patronymic of the Basque-Navarrese lands.
Forms in other languages
Giménez, Ximénez, Jimenes (Mexico and Colombia), Jiminez
Jiménez in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
122
Hebrew Standard
5
Hebrew Ordinal
77
English Simple
462
English Sumerian
85
English Reverse
122
Greek Isopsephy
5
Chaldean
77
Pythagorean
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