Rema vs Remonia

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Rema Remonia

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 114 years in which either name was published, Rema for 95 years and Remonia for 19 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1907–1937 Rema ahead
• 1938–1940 Remonia ahead
• 1946–1948 Rema ahead
• 1951–1964 Remonia ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1965–2025 Rema ahead, apart from one short spell

8 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 Remonias alive today are over 68; half the Remas are over 40. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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