Remy
About 20,746 American babies have been named Remy since 1914, most of them around 2022. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 408th. About 20,000 Remys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Remy boys named Remy
Girls and boys called Remy
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Remy crossed from girls to boys in 1994, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 62% boys, and in 2025 it was 67%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 49 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,746
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 356th
- Rank in 2025
- 408th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 8,262 / 12,484
How old the living Remys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,746 babies given the name since 1914, about 20,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 70 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Remys
- Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915)French writer
- Rémy Cabella (born 1990)French footballer
- Remy LaCroix (born 1988)American pornographic actress
- Rémy Vercoutre (born 1980)French footballer
- Remy Bonjasky (born 1976)Surinamese-Dutch kickboxer
- Remy Belleau (1528–1577)French writer
- Remy Ma (born 1980)American rapper
- Rémy Di Gregorio (born 1985)road bicycle racer
People named Remy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Remy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Remy is most concentrated in Nevada (2.5×), Washington (2.4×), Colorado (2.2×), Oregon (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Remy peaked:
Remy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Rémy +1 spelling | 74,490 | 59th |
| England and Wales boys | Remy | 3,865 | 112th |
| Belgium boys | Rémy +1 spelling | 1,446 | 152nd |
| England and Wales girls | Remy | 841 | 521st |
| Switzerland boys | Rémy +1 spelling | 717 | 255th |
| Norway boys | Remy | 378 | 228th |
| Scotland boys | Remy | 165 | 168th |
| Ireland boys | Remy +1 spelling | 117 | 329th |
| Scotland girls | Remy | 97 | 281st |
| France girls | Rémy | 85 | 1,483rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Remy | 61 | 144th |
| Ireland girls | Remy | 14 | 716th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Remy | 11 | 290th |
| Poland boys | Remy | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Remy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Rémy | 248 | 0.020% | 263rd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Remy | 187 | 0.015% | 242nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Rémy | 228 | 0.052% | 90th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Remy | 44 | 0.010% | 193rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Remy | 6 | 0.009% | 116th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Rémy | 3 | 0.005% | 179th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Remy | 1 | 0.027% | 18th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Remy is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.09% of children were given it – 65 of them.
Remy: rank by region
In 2025, Remy was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Rémy | 536 | 10 |
| Flanders | Remy | 914 | 5 |
In 2023, Remy was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Remy | 9 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Remy by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Remy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Remy | 2,307 | 2,822 |
| the Netherlands girls | Remy | 97 | 155 |
| Finland boys | Remy +1 spelling | 61 | 72 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Remy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.