Rema
Rema was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,897 among girls’ names; 1,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rema?
#12,897 among girls’ names, 2025
Rema rose from #16,014 in 2015 to #12,897 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 4.4 per million.
28 babies in 1918, the peak
Rema peaked in 1918, when 28 girls were given it, #1,529 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,897 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,905 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,166 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,054 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,908 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,307 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,510 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,494 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,952 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,014 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,862 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,840 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,658 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,341 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,197 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,575 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,814 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,130 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,392 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,234 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,499 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,308 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,817 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,541 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,104 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,003 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,863 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,392 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,470 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,417 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,922 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,942 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,496 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,761 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,845 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,572 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,948 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,678 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,024 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,909 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,118 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,295 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,235 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,028 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,660 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,460 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,139 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,101 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,083 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,256 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,231 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,084 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,749 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,992 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,967 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,053 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,233 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,146 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,755 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,356 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,190 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,404 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,714 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,690 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,220 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,699 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,214 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,651 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,039 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,427 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,048 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,615 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,826 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,813 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,651 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,324 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,102 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,110 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,661 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,876 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,916 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,383 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,403 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,543 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,660 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,415 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,542 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,892 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,934 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,091 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,014 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,283 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 19 | #2,010 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,015 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,551 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,907 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,052 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,571 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,925 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,033 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 20 | #2,003 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,409 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,529 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,671 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,014 | 16.3 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,030 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,336 | 30.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,344 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,155 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,174 | 17.3 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,615 | 25.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rema has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 111 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rema, and how old are they?
An estimated 745 Americans named Rema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 25 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,254 people named Rema (1,213 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,792 babies since 1880, Rema is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,614 babies (<1%), the eighth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rema
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rema and names like it
- Compare Rema and RemiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Rema.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rema alive today were born 1981-1996.
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