Girl · Spanish
Remedios
Say it: reh-MEH-dyos
Meaning
Spanish 'remedies', from Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common in 19th- and early 20th-century Spain, now rarely given to babies.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 94 babies given this name since 1923
- At its height in 1928, about 1 in 96,100 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Reme
| Portuguese | Remédios |
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Famous bearers
- Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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