MEANING & HISTORY
What does Remigio mean?
Remigio is the Spanish and Italian form of Latin Remigius. The name is connected with remex, oarsman, and the Latin rowing-word family.
Saint Remigius of Reims helped establish its Christian transmission. The given name’s occupational root is historical; it does not mean a bearer actually rows or works on boats. Remy is a related French development.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ɾeˈmihijo/Standard-Tagalog
- [ɾɛˈmiː.hjo]Standard-Tagalog
Re · mi · gi · o4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish, from Latin Remigius.
a male given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Remigio (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Derived from Latin Remigius.
a male given name from Latin
Wiktionary: Remigio (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
5
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Remigio in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Remigio
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Eligio♂Chosen
- Remedio·As a Spanish word: remedy, help or cure
- Pelagio·Greek sea-name through Latin Pelagius
- Redito·As a Portuguese word: said again or repeated
- Reggie♂Diminutive of Reginald
- Regis♂English Regis, associated with the French Régis name tradition
- Reino·Finnish Reynold form; Spanish word for kingdom
- Remedios♀Remedies; from Our Lady of Remedies
What rhymes with Remigio?
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Explore Remigio further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Remigio (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Remigio (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Remigio (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: remigio (opens in a new tab)
Independent onomastic comparison and qualifications to the proposed origin.
- Wiktionary: Remigius (opens in a new tab)
Explicit lexical or parent-name step in the described formation.