Baby name

RARE UNISEX · ENGLISH WORD NAME, FROM SPANISH
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Pimento

/pih · MEN · toh/


“Sweet pepper, from 'coloring'”

An English word name from pimento, a word that names both the sweet red pepper used to stuff olives and, separately, a spice made from dried allspice berries. The word came into English from Spanish pimiento and pimienta, meaning pepper, from Late Latin pigmenta, the plural of pigmentum, meaning coloring.

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How it ages.

A bold, food-inspired word name; distinctive now, though its novelty makes it hard to predict how it will age.

The cultural moment.

Rare as a first name; best known in English as the word for a mild, sweet pepper.