Remington

5,568 people in the United States were counted with the surname Remington in the 2020 census, making it the 5,956th most common in the country. That is about one person in 53,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,568
Rank: 5,956th
How common: 1 in 53,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Remington described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Remington

Frederic Remington (1861–1909)American painter and sculptor
Eliphalet Remington (1793–1861)American firearm designer

People named Remington with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Remington

Remy
Rembert

Also a first name

Remington has been given to 34,095 American babies as a first name since 1955, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.