Entry № 5742 · Spanish origin

Larimar Larimar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-ree-mar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"A blue Caribbean gem"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a blue caribbean gem".

Larimar is a rare sky-blue stone found only in the Dominican Republic, its name blending Larissa with mar, the sea.

Calm and oceanic, it is a modern jewel name as blue as the Caribbean.

A blue Caribbean gem — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Larimar
Transliteration
Larimar
Pronunciation
/ ˈla.ɾi.mar /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Larimar stands.

Larimar does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Larimars before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Larimar.

The number behind Larimar.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Larimar reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.