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Remington vs Remmington

American parents have registered 34,095 Remingtons since 1880, against 705 Remmingtons. Remington is still ahead, with 1,685 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Remington Remmington

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

Remington has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Remington had 147 and Remmington had 12.

Side by side

  Remington Remmington
Total US births 34,095705
Most in one year 2,49554
Babies in 2025 1,68528
Estimated living today 34,000700
Median age today 78
Peak year 20192020
Best rank 227th boys3,418th boys
Rank in 2025 307th5,608th
First recorded 19551984
Girls / boys 10,118 / 23,977278 / 427

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.

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