Remi
Remi is given to both girls and boys: 2,023 girls and 323 boys were given it in 2025 (#145 among girls’ names and #787 among boys’, #283 among all names counting both); 27,066 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,700 Americans named Remi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Remi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Remi mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Remi is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “oarsman” (rēmex).
A sixth-century French saint, Latin Rēmigius, from rēmex (“oarsman”).
/ʁə.mi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Remi?
#145 among girls’ names, 2025
Remi rose from #502 in 2015 to #145 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.36 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,740 babies in 2022, the peak
Remi peaked in 2022, when 2,740 babies were given it (2,392 girls, #118 among girls’ names). The 2,346 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,023 | #145 | 323 | #787 |
| 2024 | 1,998 | #145 | 311 | #812 |
| 2023 | 2,180 | #127 | 300 | #819 |
| 2022 | 2,392 | #118 | 348 | #740 |
| 2021 | 2,298 | #122 | 360 | #720 |
| 2020 | 2,206 | #125 | 313 | #770 |
| 2019 | 1,861 | #154 | 241 | #914 |
| 2018 | 1,668 | #177 | 182 | #1,089 |
| 2017 | 1,278 | #249 | 190 | #1,055 |
| 2016 | 1,102 | #296 | 176 | #1,114 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 635 | #502 | 91 | #1,713 |
| 2014 | 435 | #659 | 88 | #1,723 |
| 2013 | 315 | #837 | 66 | #2,060 |
| 2012 | 242 | #1,042 | 66 | #2,087 |
| 2011 | 225 | #1,095 | 70 | #1,983 |
| 2010 | 199 | #1,219 | 65 | #2,090 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,461 | 68 | #2,045 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,683 | 57 | #2,318 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,778 | 49 | #2,557 |
| 2006 | 120 | #1,741 | 27 | #3,753 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,102 | 39 | #2,789 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,110 | 35 | #2,939 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,057 | 26 | #3,499 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,787 | 23 | #3,746 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,087 | 40 | #2,467 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,363 | 25 | #3,397 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,710 | 19 | #3,948 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,933 | 26 | #3,072 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,838 | 27 | #2,882 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,119 | 16 | #4,142 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,827 | 22 | #3,161 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,831 | 12 | #5,044 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,142 | 23 | #3,008 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,906 | 15 | #4,055 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,072 | 19 | #3,296 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,341 | 19 | #3,272 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,215 | 21 | #2,969 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,525 | 14 | #3,659 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,250 | 10 | #4,504 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,478 | 10 | #4,393 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,406 | 10 | #4,271 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,079 | |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,728 | 9 | #4,414 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,454 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,947 | 14 | #3,182 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,951 | 7 | #5,382 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,148 | 8 | #4,752 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,790 | 10 | #3,791 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,732 | 11 | #3,551 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,930 | 10 | #3,659 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,318 | 7 | #4,675 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,452 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,232 | 9 | #3,628 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,990 | 6 | #4,855 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,174 | 8 | #3,882 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,760 | 12 | #2,852 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,353 | 10 | #3,020 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,234 | 12 | #2,547 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,584 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,935 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,481 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,561 | 10 | #2,803 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,390 | 5 | #4,498 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,808 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,530 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,509 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,505 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,278 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,737 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 11 | #2,499 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 8 | #3,052 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #3,016 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,258 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #4,100 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 11 | #2,475 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,116 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,945 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,905 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #4,049 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,616 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 13 | #2,404 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,760 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,827 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,181 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 15 | #2,141 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #3,013 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Remi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 27,066 Americans recorded as Remi, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Remi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Remi, and how old are they?
26,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 27,066 Americans ever recorded as Remi. The median Remi alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 12,143 people named Remi (9,494 women and girls, 2,649 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 86 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 229 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 589 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Remi born?
The states with the most babies named Remi are California, Texas and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 258 | #149 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 196 | #209 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 107 | #207 | 0.7× |
| New York | 98 | #226 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 93 | #131 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #132 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 75 | #161 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 71 | #45 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 66 | #174 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 64 | #57 | 1.8× |
Where Remi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Remi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1915 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Remi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,342 babies since 1880, Remi is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,346 of their 3,768 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Remi
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 Remi and names like it
- Compare Remi and RemyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRemi peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Remi since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Remi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Remi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Remi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.