Given name & surname · also Latin
Remedios
“one who is assisted by God”
Remedios is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is assisted by God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who is assisted by God.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Spanish and Latin naming traditions.
How it developed
Remedios is used as a feminine counterpart of Remedio.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Remedios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 104
- 0 boys · 104 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,536 as a first name in 2020; 586 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Remedios’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Remedios has a diminutive in Remrem. Remedios is a feminine form of Remedio. Remedios has a conventional naming counterpart in Osane.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Remedyvariant
- Remedivariant
- Remremdiminutive · ceb
- Remediyovariant
- Remediovariant
- Remedeavariant
- Remedeyvariant
- Remedeevariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Remedios
- Remedios VaroSpanish painter (1908–1963)
- Remedios AmayaSpanish singerborn 1962
- Kumander LiwaywayFilipino guerrilla commander during World War II1918–2014
- Remedios ZafraSpanish writerborn 1973
- Remedios Montero MartínezSpanish guerrilla1927–2010
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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