Remedios is from the Spanish Nuestra Señora de los Remedios ("Our Lady of Remedies"). Remedios Varo (1908-1963) was the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter — friend of Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, and the Mexico City exile community of Surrealists during WWII. Her exquisite small canvases — depicting alchemists, scientists, embroideresses, and travelers in fantastical machines — are now considered masterpieces of Surrealism. Forced to flee Spain during the Civil War, then Vichy France during the Nazi occupation.
Subject of the major 2023 Art Institute of Chicago retrospective.
Remedios does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Remedios reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.