Lourdes

Meaning

Proper Noun

• town Hautes-Pyrénées (department) Occitanie (region) in the French Pyrenees, and site of a large Catholic pilgrimage
• A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.

Origin

• French Lourdes, corruption of Medieval Latin Lorus (778), the baptismal name taken by a Moorish leader who converted to Christianity, though of unknown ultimate meaning.