Remington
Remington is a unisex name: 580 girls and 1,105 boys were given it in 2025 (#513 among girls’ names and #307 among boys’, #403 among all names counting both); 34,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 33,800 Americans named Remington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Remington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Remington mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Remington is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “edge, border” (rima) and “settlement by the boundary stream” (literally).
The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).
/ˈɹɛmɪŋtən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Remington?
#307 among boys’ names, 2025
Remington fell from #298 in 2015 to #307 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.63 to 0.65 per 1,000.
2,495 babies in 2019, the peak
Remington peaked in 2019, when 2,495 babies were given it (1,658 boys, #227 among boys’ names). The 1,685 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 580 | #513 | 1,105 | #307 |
| 2024 | 596 | #517 | 1,172 | #287 |
| 2023 | 732 | #418 | 1,193 | #283 |
| 2022 | 786 | #399 | 1,456 | #242 |
| 2021 | 897 | #347 | 1,595 | #231 |
| 2020 | 860 | #361 | 1,624 | #230 |
| 2019 | 837 | #375 | 1,658 | #227 |
| 2018 | 869 | #362 | 1,541 | #245 |
| 2017 | 759 | #419 | 1,512 | #247 |
| 2016 | 704 | #456 | 1,418 | #254 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 462 | #623 | 1,208 | #298 |
| 2014 | 413 | #687 | 1,114 | #313 |
| 2013 | 242 | #1,032 | 874 | #360 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,422 | 669 | #421 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,707 | 555 | #478 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,734 | 468 | #543 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,874 | 453 | #582 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,414 | 320 | #724 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,160 | 272 | #795 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,909 | 265 | #782 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,515 | 228 | #825 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,952 | 221 | #814 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,868 | 214 | #820 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,543 | 185 | #884 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,527 | 192 | #843 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,006 | 205 | #792 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,519 | 223 | #731 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,681 | 225 | #730 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,722 | 198 | #752 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,659 | 163 | #853 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,770 | 140 | #938 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,832 | 155 | #860 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,941 | 122 | #979 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,400 | 127 | #950 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,155 | 130 | #928 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,663 | 125 | #921 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,950 | 142 | #840 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,352 | 88 | #1,060 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 73 | #1,128 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 62 | #1,223 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 70 | #1,114 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 87 | #948 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 106 | #852 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 14 | #3,250 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,643 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,279 |
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 Remington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 34,095 Americans recorded as Remington, 30% are girls and 70% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Remington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Remington, and how old are they?
33,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,095 Americans ever recorded as Remington. The median Remington alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 18,773 people named Remington (4,947 women and girls, 13,826 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,914 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,000 |
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 Remington born?
The states with the most babies named Remington are Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #472 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 120 | #157 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 84 | #162 | 1.4× |
| California | 82 | #625 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 80 | #180 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 71 | #368 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 70 | #293 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 60 | #240 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 58 | #191 | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 57 | #135 | 1.8× |
Where Remington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Remington is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1955 it was given 2.8 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 boys’ 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 Remington 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 34,800 babies since 1880, Remington is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,685 of their 1,713 babies (98%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remington | 34,095 | 1,685 | 2019 |
| Remmington | 705 | 28 | 2020 |
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 Remington
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 Remington and names like it
- Compare Remington and RemmingtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRemington peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Remington since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Remington: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Remington.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Remington alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.