Remedios

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Remedios Origin and Meaning

The name Remedios is a girl's name .

Remedios is an unusual and evocative Marian name, from Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, which means "Our Lady of the Remedies".

A famous real-life bearer is 20th century Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo. There is also a notable literary character by the name in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Famous People Named Remedios

  • Remedios Varo
    Spanish surrealist painter
  • María Dolores "Remedios" Amaya
    Spanish Romani flamenco singer

Remedios in Pop Culture

  • Remedios Moscote
    Remedios the Beauty, and Renata "Meme" Remedios, characters in Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

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