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Remmy vs Remona

American parents have registered 1,393 Remonas since 1880, against 970 Remmys. But in 2025 it was Remmy that was commoner, 61 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Remmy against Remona, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Remmy Remona

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 85 years in which either name was published, Remona for 64 years and Remmy for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Remmy Remona
Total US births 9701,393
Most in one year 8642
Babies in 2025 61under 5
Estimated living today 960940
Median age today 764
Peak year 20201965
Best rank 2,212th boys1,741st girls
Rank in 2025 2,884thunranked
First recorded 19971914
Girls / boys 308 / 6621,393 / 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 Remonas alive today are over 64; half the Remmys are over 7. That is 57 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: Remmy and Remona.