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Lurdes Lurdes — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOOR-desh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Our Lady of Lourdes"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Portuguese)

A name that means "our lady of lourdes".

Lurdes is from the Portuguese Lurdes — Portuguese-Brazilian rendition of Lourdes — referring to the Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes (Notre-Dame de Lourdes). Lurdes is one of the Portuguese + Brazilian Marian-devotion feminine names — central to traditional Portuguese + Brazilian + Galician Catholic heritage. The Lourdes Sanctuary is one of the Marian pilgrimage sites worldwide (~6 million pilgrims annually).

Our Lady of Lourdes.

The name in its native script.

Lurdes
Transliteration
Lurdes
Pronunciation
/ ˈluːr.dɛʃ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lurdes stands.

Lurdes 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.

Lurdess before her.

Real people
Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo
First + only female Prime Minister of Portugal 1979-80.
1930 – 2004
In fiction
Lurdes (Lourdes)
Portuguese Our Lady of Lourdes.

Names connected to Lurdes.

The number behind Lurdes.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lurdes reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.