Remy

4,050 people in the United States were counted with the surname Remy in the 2020 census, making it the 7,853rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 73,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,050
Rank: 7,853rd
How common: 1 in 73,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.4%
Black, not Hispanic 42.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Remy

Loïc Rémy (born 1987)French footballer
Nicholas Remy (1530–1612)French judge
Pierre-Jean Rémy (1937–2010)French writer and diplomat
William Rémy (born 1991)French footballer
Raoul Rémy (1919–2002)French road bicycle racer

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

Surnames like Remy

Also a first name

Remy has been given to 20,746 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

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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.