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Remigio vs Remington

American parents have registered 34,095 Remingtons since 1880, against 805 Remigios. Remington is still ahead, with 1,685 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Remigio against Remington, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Remigio Remington

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 103 years in which either name was published, Remigio for 59 years and Remington for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Remigio Remington
Total US births 80534,095
Most in one year 152,495
Babies in 2025 51,685
Estimated living today 56034,000
Median age today 367
Peak year 19882019
Best rank 3,350th boys227th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th307th
First recorded 19101955
Girls / boys 0 / 80510,118 / 23,977

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 Remigios alive today are over 36; half the Remingtons are over 7. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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