Jiménez (surname)

Jiménez (Galician and Portuguese: Ximenes, Catalan: Ximenis or Eiximenis, Sicilian: Scimemi or Scimeni) is a surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands. [2] Jiménez is a patronymic construction from the modern-styled given name Jimeno, plus the Spanish suffix -ez, meaning "son [of]". The root appears to stem from Basque semen ('son'), attested in the Aquitanian inscriptions as Sembeconnis and like forms. Variants of the surname include the archaic Ximénez, Ximenes, as well as Giménez, Gimenes, Jimenes, Chiménez, Chimenes, Seménez, Semenes and the Sicilian Scimemi or Scimeni.

Jiménez
Language(s)Spanish
Origin
Word/nameSpanish
Region of originBasque Country, Spain
Other names
Variant form(s)Jimenes, Giménez, Gimenes, Ximénez, Ximenes, Ximenis, Eiximenis, Scimemi, Scimeni
Frequency Comparisons:[1]
See below for disambiguation of the names Jiménez and Ximenes

In Spanish orthography, the variations of Jiménez that end with a z are written with an acute accent on the second syllable. In English, all variations are commonly written without the diacritic.

In Portuguese orthography, there is no diacritic used for Ximenes.

Spelling

As the modern name Ximenes has an -es suffix, it is almost certainly of Portuguese, Galician or Old Spanish origin, as the orthographic change to -ez (and indeed, the consonant shift from X to J) was revised in Spain only in the late 18th century. This obviously was not the case in Portugal.

Other languages in Castilian-dominated lands like Aragon, Asturias, Galicia, etc. often retained the -es ending, and their descendants bear witness to this historical anomaly. In Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearics, the ending -is is used instead of -es (or -ez), hence, the spelling Ximenis (or the variant with vowel epenthesis, Eiximinis or Eximenis).

Ximenes, as such, exists most commonly in Portugal, and in all of the ex-Portuguese Crown territories, especially in Brazil. Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Nobel Laureate from East Timor in 1996, and Brazilian actress, Mariana Ximenes, are prime examples of this historical difference.

Notable people
Jimenes
Jiménez or Jimenez
  • Alex Jimenez (born 1982), United States Army soldier missing in action in Iraq and Iran
  • Carmen Jiménez (1920–2016), Spanish artist
  • Carmita Jiménez (1944–2003), Puerto Rican singer
  • Celia Jiménez (chef), Spanish chef
  • Christian Jimenez (born 1986), American soccer player
  • David Jimenez (disambiguation), various people
  • Elvio Jiménez (born 1940), Major League Baseball player
  • Emma Laura Gutiérrez Jiménez, Mexican actress
  • Eustacio Jiménez (1976-2010), a Mexican professional wrestler better known as El Hijo de Cien Caras
  • Flaco Jiménez (born 1939), Mexican-American musician
  • Francisco Jiménez (Tecamachalco Governor) (born 1979), colonial Nahua noble from Tecamachalco
  • García Jiménez of Pamplona, ninth century Pamplona royalty
  • Iker Jiménez (born 1973), Spanish journalist
  • Jesús Jiménez Zamora, President of Costa Rica (1863–1866 and 1868–1870)
  • José Alfredo Jiménez (1926–1973), Mexican singer-songwriter
  • Jose F. Jimenez (1946-1969), Lance Corporal Jimenez, United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient for heroism
  • Jose Jimenez (baseball) (born 1973), Major League Baseball player
  • José María Jiménez (1971-2003), Spanish cyclist
  • Joyce Jimenez (born 1978), Filipino-American actress
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate
Ximenes
  • Aurora Ximenes (born 1955), East Timorese politician
  • Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (born 1948), Roman Catholic Bishop of East Timor, Nobel laureate
  • Claudio de Jesus Ximenes (contemporary), Supreme Court Chief Justice of East Timor
  • General Sir David Ximenes (died 1848), KCH, Berkshire magistrate, owner of stately home Bear Ash, youngest brother of Morris Ximenes
  • Didacus Ximenes (died 1560), Spanish monk, theologian, rector of the University of Salamanca
  • Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926), Italian sculptor
  • Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517), Spanish Cardinal, inquisitor and statesman (called in his lifetime "Ximenes de Cisneros")
  • Francisco Ximenes de Texada (1703–1775), Portuguese Grand Master of the Order of St. John
  • Julio Ximenes Senior (1901–1975), Brazilian scientist, author, and World War II Army general
  • Leonardo Ximenes (1716–1786), Italian mathematician, engineer, astronomer and geographer
  • Mariana Ximenes (born 1981), Brazilian actress
  • Moäng Ratu Dona Ines Ximenes da Silva of Flores (c. 1700), lady sovereign and member of the Portuguese Ximenes da Silva ruling family of the island-principality of Flores, in present-day Indonesia
  • Morris Ximenes (c. 1762-1830), English Jewish businessman who converted to Christianity
  • Orion Ximenes Filho (born 1945), Brazilian actor, voice-over artist
  • Paulo César Ximenes (born 1943), Brazilian economist
  • Sebastiano Ximenes (c. late-16th century), Italian banker of Portuguese origin in Florence, patron of the arts
  • Vicente T. Ximenes (1919-2014), Mexican-American civil rights pioneer and politician
Ximenes de Poissy
"Ximenes de Poissy" Coat of Arms: French dynasty of Portuguese origin
Illustration for the Ximenes of Poissy, France clan. Their descendants also reside in Brazil.
Motto (Latin): In Deo Æternum (Into God Eternally).
An alternate coat of arms is assigned to the Ximenes of Bear Ash/Place clan by the College of Arms, in the United Kingdom. The coat of arms is described as follows, "Ximenes of Bear Place. Or two bars gules with a pale countercoloured over all and a border azure."
Ximénez or Ximenez
  • Fortún Ximénez (unknown–1533), Spanish sailor and founder of first known European settlement in Baja California
  • José Ximénez (1601–1672), a Spanish organist and composer
Eiximenis

Pseudonyms

Fictional persons

Ruling dynasty

The Jiménez dynasty in 905 became kings of Pamplona, eventually expanding control to most of Christian Spain.

References
  1. "Jiménez Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk.
  2. Domingo de la Ripa (1675). Defensa historica por la antigvedad del reyno de Sobrarbe. por los herederos de Pedro Lanaja y Lamarca. pp. 142–.
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