Gender Masculine Usage Spanish, Portuguese Pronounced Pron. ehr-meh-neh-KHEEL-do(Spanish) Meaning & History Spanish and Portuguese form of a Visigothic name, from the Gothic elements airmans "great, immense" and gild "payment, tribute, compensation". It was borne by a 6th-century saint, the son of Liuvigild the Visigothic king of Hispania.