Names That Mean Relief
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- Socorro
Origin:
Spanish and PortugueseMeaning:
"succour, help, relief"Description:
Socorro is a Spanish and Portuguese word name taken from a title of the Virgin Mary, "Mary of Perpetual Succour." Its religious meaning makes it somewhat old-fashioned and not among the Spanish names for girls widely used in the US.
- Relief
Origin:
Virtue nameMeaning:
"relief"Description:
Relief was a name used by the Puritans in reference to the relief of Christ. Leafy was the common nickname.
- Leafy
Origin:
Diminutive of Relief, word nameMeaning:
"relief"Description:
It sounds like a modern nature name, but Leafy was coined as a Puritan nickname for the girls' name Relief, which referred to the relief of Christ.
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