Remy

boys’ name · 60%girls’ name · 40%At its peak · modern nameCompare

Remy is ranked 400th among boys in 2024 (801 births). Its best rank was 356th, in 2020, 2022.

Rank in 2024: #400down 10 from 2023
Births in 2024: 8010.05% of boys
Peak year: 2022923 births
Best rank: #356first in 2020
Since 1914: 19,563people given the name

Babies named Remy, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

11,694 boys have been named Remy in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 923 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 41%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Remy is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (7,869), most of them born around 2020.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Remy
1910s	12
1920s	23
1930s	10
1940s	27
1950s	79
1960s	99
1970s	108
1980s	291
1990s	696
2000s	1,242
2010s	4,791
2020s	4,316

In 2022, its biggest year

Remy was the 356th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Remy

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.