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Remi vs Remmington

American parents have registered 27,066 Remis since 1880, against 705 Remmingtons. Remi is still ahead, with 2,346 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Remi Remmington

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 1984, when Remi had 5 and Remmington had 5.

Side by side

  Remi Remmington
Total US births 27,066705
Most in one year 2,74054
Babies in 2025 2,34628
Estimated living today 27,000700
Median age today 58
Peak year 20222020
Best rank 118th girls3,418th boys
Rank in 2025 145th5,608th
First recorded 19151984
Girls / boys 22,881 / 4,185278 / 427

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Remmingtons alive today are over 8; half the Remis are over 5. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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