Rema vs Remigio

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Rema Remigio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Rema for 88 years and Remigio for 27 years. The lead changed hands 30 times.

• 1914–1950 Rema ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1954–1956 Remigio ahead
• 1958–1975 Rema ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1976–1978 Remigio ahead
• 1979–1999 Rema ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 2006–2009 Remigio ahead
• 2016–2022 Rema ahead

20 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Remas alive today are over 40; half the Remigios are over 36. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Rema Tennessee (35.9×)
• Remigio Texas (10.6×), California (1.8×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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