Remi

Where Remi comes from

Remi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    Remi Sonaiya born
    Nigerian politician, educationist and writer
  2. 1963
    First appearance
    #6,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1990
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1996
    Remi Wolf born
    American singer, songwriter and record producer
  5. 2022
    Peak, #118
    2,392 babies named Remi — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Remi Sonaiya · Nigerian politician, educationist and writer, born 1955
  • Remi Wolf · American singer, songwriter and record producer, born 1996
  • Remi Adefarasin · British cinematographer, born 1948
  • Remi Abiola · Nigerian film actress and spouse of Nigerian President Moshood Abiola, 1953–2009
  • Remi Vaughn-Richards · Nigerian film director, born 1901

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.