Remy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sents a falling together of two distinct L names: i
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁemi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Remy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.9K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rémy in CM Cameroon.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sents a falling together of two distinct L names: i. Remigius (a deriv. of remex, gen. remigis, rower, oarsman, from remus oar + agere to wield); this was borne by a 6th-cent. bishop of Rheims who brought Christianity to the W Franks and who baptized Clovis. 2. Remedius (from remedium cure, Rephael see Raphael
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Remy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #259 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 74K | Remy | 340 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Remy | 50 |
| US United States | — | 13,657 | 1 in 24K | 7.9K | Remy | 344 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #439 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 1 | Remy | 14 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Rémy | 15 |
| BE Belgium | #539 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 3.5K | Remy | 99 |
| CH Switzerland | #630 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 535 | Remy | 71 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Remy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Kurzform zu Remigius; auch häufig französischer Familienname. Morphologie: Kurz- und Transpositionsform; 570 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Latinisierte/romanische Form; morphologische Transposition. Belegt in NL/BE/LUX: 104/3726/77.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymische Form zu Remigius/Remi-, mit latinisierender Schreibvariante. 570 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, evtl. zu den lat. Rufnamen Remus/Remigius oder mit i-Suffix aus Remo/Rema; 518 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In sla-pro, strap, belt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rémy Belleaub. 1528FRFrench writer
- Remy de Gourmontb. 1858FRFrench writer (1858–1915)
- Rémy Julienneb. 1930FRFrench racing driver (1930–2021)
- Rémy Girardb. 1950CACanadian actor
- Rémy Belvauxb. 1966BEBelgian actor and director (1966-2006)
- Remy Bonjaskyb. 1976SRSurinamese-Dutch kickboxer
- Rémy Vercoutreb. 1980FRFrench footballer (born 1980)
- Remy Hiib. 1986AUAustralian actor
- Remy LaCroixb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress
- Rémy Cabellab. 1990FRFrench footballer (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 100 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,008 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #2,008 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 781 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 390 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2019 | 295 | #2,992 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Remy a male or female name?
- Remy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Remy?
- In the etymology graph, Remi and Remigijus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Remy come from?
- sents a falling together of two distinct L names: i. Remigius (a deriv. of remex, gen. remigis, rower, oarsman, from remus oar + agere to wield); this was borne by a 6th-cent. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Remy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Remy in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled remy.
- How do you pronounce Remy?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁemi/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Remy mean?
- Recorded meaning: sents a falling together of two distinct L names: i.
- How common is the name Remy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,657 people named Remy in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Remy compared with other names?
- In France, Remy is the 259th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/remyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Remy” — the 259th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.