Remi

Used for both boys and girlsLate Roman (Remigius), reaching English through French Rémi

The English form of Rémi, tracing back to the Late Roman name Remigius.

Origin: Late Roman (Remigius), reaching English through French Rémi

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1959 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #31 in New South Wales, Australia in 2023. See regions.

Remi: Recorded since 1959, its highest recorded position is #31, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
153times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#31highest recorded position
23groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Remi's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

Confidence in the evidencebehind this name's data — never a rating of the name itself, and never affected by how well it matches your preferences. How this is assessed

Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (6) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

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Pronunciation clarity

Not yet assessed — Namewise hasn't recorded a pronunciation (respelling or IPA) for this name yet.

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: Late Roman (Remigius), reaching English through French Rémi
Meaning: The English form of Rémi, tracing back to the Late Roman name Remigius.
Pronunciation: Not available
Syllables: 2
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: Used for both boys and girls
Language family: Late Roman (Remigius), reaching English through French Rémi

Popularity

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#484
1997	#585
1998	#817
1999	#752
2000	#852
2001	#1025
2002	#1032
2003	#818
2004	#985
2005	#1121
2006	#1004
2007	#1573
2008	#859
2009	#1287
2010	#1150
2011	#1225
2012	#902
2013	#959
2014	#986
2015	#775
2016	#485
2017	#461
2018	#312
2019	#226
2020	#194
2021	#174
2022	#186
2023	#162
2024	#160
2025	#172

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 57 of the 60 years from 1959 to 2018.

In 2025: #49 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #172 among girls in England and Wales, #184 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1959–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1959
First recorded at #319 among boys in Norway in 1959 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #172 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Remi appears in 8 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 57 years beginning in 1959, and has registered 1,525 births with the name.

Remi across 8 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Remi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#319 (1959)	#97 (1987)	#529 (2018)	57 of 60	1,525 (1959–2018)	83 (1988)
England and Wales · Boys	#654 (1996)	#180 (2024)	#183 (2025)	30 of 30	2,157 (1996–2025)	281 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#484 (1996)	#160 (2024)	#172 (2025)	30 of 30	2,921 (1996–2025)	315 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#374 (2024)	#468 (2025)	7 of 19	37 (2007–2025)	10 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#752 (2014)	#110 (2024)	#184 (2025)	11 of 12	246 (2014–2025)	43 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#89 (2021)	#127 (2024)	7 of 7	98 (2018–2024)	25 (2021)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#74 (2020)	#31 (2023)	#49 (2025)	6 of 6	796 (2020–2025)	169 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#365 (2019)	#348 (2023)	#404 (2024)	3 of 6	11 (2019–2024)	4 (2019)

Remi by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Remi in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	9	1 of 10	9
1960s	81	9 of 10	9
1970s	368	10 of 10	37
1980sbusiest	531	10 of 10	53
1990s	354	10 of 10	35
2000s	143	10 of 10	14
2010s	39	7 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 53 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1984 and 1985, when recorded births rose by 30, from 36 to 66.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Remi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1959 and 2025, ranked in 66 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #31, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 315 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 65 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Remi was ranked #31 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Florence#27
Aria#29
Daisy#29
Millie#31
Audrey#33
Eleanor#34
Elsie#35
Zara#35

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Remaya · #2717, 15y
Remell · #1771, 20y
Remi-Leigh · #2042, 13y
Remi-Mae · #1959, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Owen · #31, 70y
Gabrielle · #32, 62y
Aidan · #33, 62y
Georgina · #33, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Debbie · #31, 67y
Henriette · #31, 71y
Janine · #31, 60y
Maureen · #31, 71y

Remi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Remi without appearing here.

Remi moved ahead of

Levi
In 2007 they stood at #1573 and #1296 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #859 and #2150.
Garry
In 2002 they stood at #1077 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #889 and #1771.
Jordan
In 2007 they stood at #1573 and #1443 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #859 and #1718.
Barry
In 2004 they stood at #875 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #850 and #1617.

Moved ahead of Remi

Nora
In 2008 they stood at #859 and #995 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1287 and #771.
Hunter
In 2009 they stood at #777 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1082 and #625.
Aurora
In 2004 they stood at #985 and #1043 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1121 and #769.
Albie
In 1999 they stood at #563 and #750 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #953 and #624.

Moved the opposite way to Remi

Aksel
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 while Aksel went from #211 to #9.
Alfred
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 while Alfred went from #376 to #36.
Arthur
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 while Arthur went from #266 to #120.
Emil
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 while Emil went from #300 to #2.

Moved the same way as Remi

Anders
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 and Anders from #53 to #164.
Arild
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 and Arild from #27 to #506.
Arne
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 and Arne from #15 to #222.
Ben
Between 1959 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Remi went from #319 to #529 and Ben from #310 to #440.

Meaning & Origin

The English form of Rémi, tracing back to the Late Roman name Remigius.

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Late Roman (Remigius), reaching English through French Rémi

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Other names with a researched meaning and origin →

Where Remi is officially recorded

6 official registrars have recorded Remi, between 1959 and 2025, in 66 of those 67 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1959–2018	57	#97 in 1987
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#160 in 2024
Republic of Ireland	2007–2025	12	#110 in 2024
Northern Ireland	2018–2024	7	#89 in 2021
New South Wales, Australia	2020–2025	6	#31 in 2023
Scotland	2024	1	#55 in 2024

Its high point came 37 years earlier in Norway (1987) than in England and Wales (2024).

Variants

Rémi · spelling
Rémy · spelling

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

Common alternate spellings: Rémi, Rémy.

Pronunciation

No pronunciation recorded yet.

Syllables: 2
Ease: easy

Not yet availableSource: HEKNO Name Intelligence.Confidence: insufficient.

Where Remi Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Remi in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

New South Wales, AustraliaEngland and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of IrelandNorway

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Remi

Remi at a glance

What stands out in Remi's record

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Remi across 8 official records

Remi by decade in Norway · Boys

Remi appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Remi

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Remi and the names beside it

Remi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Remi

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Moved the same way as Remi

Meaning & Origin

Where Remi is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Remi Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Remi at a glance

What stands out in Remi's record

Remi across 8 official records

Remi by decade in Norway · Boys

Remi appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Remi

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Remi and the names beside it

Remi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Remi

Moved the opposite way to Remi

Moved the same way as Remi