Remedios is a Spanish given name—technically unisex but used almost exclusively for girls—meaning “remedies” or “cures.” It derives from a Marian title, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (“Our Lady of Remedies”).
The devotion to Our Lady of Remedies originated with the Trinitarian Order in the late 12th century, and it spread widely in Spain after the Reconquista. By the time of the Spanish explorations of the Americas, the Virgin under this title had become a favored patron of soldiers and conquistadores.
It is the name of a character in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1967 novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
It is borne by Spanish Flamenco singer, Remedios Amaya (b. 1962) and Spanish painter, Remedios Varo (1908-1963).
Its also the name of several places in Latin America.
Its Catalan form is Remei and Remédios its Portuguese form.
Remedy is a potential English form but has only been in use as a given name since the 20th-century.
Common Spanish diminutives include: Remi, Remita, Medi, Medis, Mecha, Chío, and Chita.
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