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Remington vs Remonia

American parents have registered 34,095 Remingtons since 1880, against 426 Remonias. Remington is still ahead, with 1,685 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Remington 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 87 years in which either name was published, Remington for 45 years and Remonia for 42 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Remington Remonia
Total US births 34,095426
Most in one year 2,49523
Babies in 2025 1,685under 5
Estimated living today 34,000280
Median age today 768
Peak year 20191957
Best rank 227th boys2,347th girls
Rank in 2025 307thunranked
First recorded 19551928
Girls / boys 10,118 / 23,977426 / 0

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 Remingtons are over 7. That is 61 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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