Remi

What Remi means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Remi yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #502 in 2015, #145 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Remi?

US: Rising: up from #502 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #775 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 2,392 girls got the name (#118 that year). First in the US records in 1963.

How common

• About 1 in 794 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 898 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 203 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (5.66 per 1,000 girls), SD (5.24 per 1,000 girls), HI (5.13 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Remi is #145 in the US and #172 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 86.2% of US babies named Remi were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Romy407 US · 282 E&W
• Remy390 US · 49 E&W
• Romi333 US · 101 E&W
• Rumi175 US · 33 E&W
• Roma143 US · 49 E&W
• Reema50 US · 18 E&W
• Rima36 US · 6 E&W
• Remmi28 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Remi

Girls

• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025
• Maisie#233Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*

For a brother

• Maverick#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #184 in 2015, #49 in 2025
• Rhett#188“advice”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Remi’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.