Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : nickname from eremita ‘hermit’ (Greek erēmitēs), generally no doubt a nickname for someone living in an isolated spot (compare Hermes).
- Spanish : habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Lugo, Orense, and Pontevedra, named with Old Spanish and Galician hermida ‘hermitage’, ‘shrine’.