Remy
Remy is a unisex name: 390 girls and 781 boys were given it in 2025 (#721 among girls’ names and #408 among boys’, #564 among all names counting both); 20,746 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Remy every year since 2001.
An estimated 20,400 Americans named Remy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Remy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Remy mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Remy is “a male given name from French [in turn from Latin], equivalent to French Rémy”
Derived from French Rémy, a French short form of Latin Remigius. In Norwegian, Remy is used as a spelling variant of Remi. The Latin name is traditionally derived from rēmex (“oarsman”), genitive rēmigis. Like Remi, it may also be used as a short form of Jeremias. First attested in 1898 in Norway. Cognate with Danish Remy, Swedish Remy and Finnish Remy.
/ˈreː.mi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Remy?
#408 among boys’ names, 2025
Remy rose from #522 in 2015 to #408 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.29 to 0.46 per 1,000.
1,489 babies in 2020, the peak
Remy peaked in 2020, when 1,489 babies were given it (872 boys, #356 among boys’ names). The 1,171 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 390 | #721 | 781 | #408 |
| 2024 | 419 | #681 | 807 | #400 |
| 2023 | 457 | #644 | 817 | #390 |
| 2022 | 500 | #600 | 924 | #356 |
| 2021 | 554 | #552 | 904 | #360 |
| 2020 | 617 | #496 | 872 | #356 |
| 2019 | 571 | #539 | 743 | #417 |
| 2018 | 586 | #536 | 721 | #426 |
| 2017 | 505 | #596 | 680 | #452 |
| 2016 | 398 | #714 | 650 | #470 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 333 | #843 | 554 | #522 |
| 2014 | 282 | #952 | 425 | #622 |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,119 | 303 | #753 |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,242 | 237 | #886 |
| 2011 | 180 | #1,309 | 236 | #883 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,686 | 243 | #869 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,693 | 206 | #972 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,852 | 192 | #1,008 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,968 | 147 | #1,204 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,505 | 103 | #1,488 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,175 | 110 | #1,369 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,984 | 111 | #1,331 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,274 | 105 | #1,322 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,216 | 105 | #1,291 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,451 | 92 | #1,381 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,931 | 71 | #1,648 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,952 | 84 | #1,403 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,097 | 91 | #1,311 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,996 | 95 | #1,227 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,579 | 79 | #1,364 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,071 | 72 | #1,397 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,154 | 64 | #1,486 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,164 | 46 | #1,840 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,148 | 47 | #1,793 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,723 | 59 | #1,491 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,676 | 59 | #1,477 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,637 | 55 | #1,506 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,778 | 40 | #1,757 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,699 | 26 | #2,253 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,433 | 20 | #2,668 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,842 | 29 | #2,003 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,302 | 26 | #2,084 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,421 | 24 | #2,195 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,296 | 33 | #1,761 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,511 | 16 | #2,864 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,477 | 22 | #2,346 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,637 | 19 | #2,539 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,622 | 14 | #3,038 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,023 | 13 | #3,159 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,296 | 7 | #4,803 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,319 | 12 | #3,199 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #4,098 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,715 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,087 | 8 | #3,886 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,039 | 10 | #3,307 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 12 | #2,853 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,845 | 6 | #4,307 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,093 | 10 | #2,873 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 13 | #2,327 | |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,360 | 6 | #3,849 |
| 1965 | under 5 | 10 | #2,733 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,562 | 9 | #3,008 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,389 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,810 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 14 | #2,313 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,278 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 10 | #2,783 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 10 | #2,776 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 12 | #2,466 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 7 | #3,469 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 12 | #2,407 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,700 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #3,091 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,148 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,136 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #4,075 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,918 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,679 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #3,059 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,835 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #4,046 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,108 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,680 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #3,099 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,195 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,746 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #3,192 |
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 Remy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,746 Americans recorded as Remy, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Remy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Remy, and how old are they?
20,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 20,746 Americans ever recorded as Remy. The median Remy alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 13,657 people named Remy (5,799 women and girls, 7,858 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 288 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,900 |
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 Remy born?
The states with the most babies named Remy are California, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 196 | #267 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 79 | #586 | 0.7× |
| New York | 76 | #335 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 58 | #212 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 56 | #475 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 39 | #496 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 38 | #348 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 38 | #494 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #453 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 36 | #375 | 0.6× |
Where Remy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Remy is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1914 it was given 1.4 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 Remy 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 49,795 babies since 1880, Remy is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,171 of their 3,583 babies (33%), again the second 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 Remy
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 Remy and names like it
- Compare Remy and RemiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRemy peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Remy since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Remy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Remy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Remy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.