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Remie vs Remy

American parents have registered 20,746 Remys since 1880, against 581 Remies. Remy is still ahead, with 1,171 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Remie against Remy, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Remie Remy

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

Remy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Remie had 13 and Remy had 165.

Side by side

  Remie Remy
Total US births 58120,746
Most in one year 461,489
Babies in 2025 361,171
Estimated living today 58020,000
Median age today 87
Peak year 20192022
Best rank 3,665th girls356th boys
Rank in 2025 3,975th408th
First recorded 19971914
Girls / boys 565 / 168,262 / 12,484

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Remie Remy
France 7074,575 Rémy
England and Wales 1924,706
Scotland 5262

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Remie and Remy.