Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 Lurdes
/LOOR · des/
Meaning
“Sacred grotto”
Portuguese spelling of Lourdes, the French Marian shrine town; the spelling shift marks it as distinctly Portuguese and Brazilian.
Nicknames
lu
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Devotional name fading in younger generations; strong in older cohorts.
The cultural moment.
Common in Portugal and Brazil through the mid-20th century; declining since the 1980s.