Remonia vs Remy
American parents have registered 20,746 Remys since 1880, against 426 Remonias. Remy is still ahead, with 1,171 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Remonia 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
Of the 102 years in which either name was published, Remy for 70 years and Remonia for 32 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1914–1927 Remy ahead
- 1928–1962 Remonia ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1965–2025 Remy ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Remonia | Remy | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 426 | 20,746 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 1,489 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 1,171 |
| Estimated living today | 280 | 20,000 |
| Median age today | 68 | 7 |
| Peak year | 1957 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 2,347th girls | 356th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 408th |
| First recorded | 1928 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 426 / 0 | 8,262 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Remonias alive today are over 68; half the Remys 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: Remonia and Remy.