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Remedy vs Remi

American parents have registered 27,066 Remis since 1880, against 908 Remedys. Remi is still ahead, with 2,346 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Remedy against Remi, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Remedy Remi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Remi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Remedy had 24 and Remi had 264.

Side by side

  Remedy Remi
Total US births 90827,066
Most in one year 1162,740
Babies in 2025 872,346
Estimated living today 90027,000
Median age today 45
Peak year 20232022
Best rank 1,762nd girls118th girls
Rank in 2025 2,139th145th
First recorded 20061915
Girls / boys 887 / 2122,881 / 4,185

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Remedy Remi
England and Wales 65,078

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Remedy and Remi.