Remington
#511 for girls in 2025, 580 births · #307 for boys in 2025, 1,105 births
Given to boys 70.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 1,658 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,977since 1955
Remington over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #511 | 580 | #307 | 1,105 |
| 2024 | #516 | 596 | #287 | 1,172 |
| 2023 | #418 | 732 | #282 | 1,193 |
| 2022 | #399 | 786 | #242 | 1,456 |
| 2021 | #347 | 897 | #231 | 1,595 |
| 2020 | #361 | 860 | #230 | 1,624 |
| 2019 | #375 | 837 | #227 | 1,658 |
| 2018 | #361 | 869 | #245 | 1,541 |
| 2017 | #419 | 759 | #247 | 1,512 |
| 2016 | #456 | 704 | #254 | 1,418 |
| 2015 | #622 | 462 | #298 | 1,208 |
| 2014 | #686 | 413 | #313 | 1,114 |
| 2013 | #1,030 | 242 | #360 | 874 |
| 2012 | #1,416 | 161 | #421 | 669 |
| 2011 | #1,701 | 123 | #477 | 555 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 | #541 | 468 |
| 2009 | #1,866 | 113 | #582 | 453 |
| 2008 | #2,397 | 80 | #721 | 320 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 | #793 | 272 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 | #782 | 265 |
| 2005 | #2,503 | 69 | #824 | 228 |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 | #815 | 221 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 | #816 | 214 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #884 | 185 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #843 | 192 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 | #793 | 205 |
| 1999 | #2,501 | 57 | #731 | 223 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #729 | 225 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 | #752 | 198 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 | #853 | 163 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 | #937 | 140 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 | #862 | 155 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 | #979 | 122 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #952 | 127 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #930 | 130 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #921 | 125 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #839 | 142 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,058 | 88 |
| 1987 | — | #1,123 | 73 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,217 | 62 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,110 | 70 | |
| 1984 | — | #944 | 87 | |
| 1983 | — | #848 | 106 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Remington! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Remington is popular in 1984
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#414 · 1 in 4,974
- Arizona#479 · 1 in 4,967
- Ohio#661 · 1 in 15,305
- New York#796 · 1 in 12,983
- California#842 · 1 in 15,169
Best ever in a state: #28 in West Virginia, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #414 | 5 | 1 in 4,974 |
| Arizona | #479 | 5 | 1 in 4,967 |
| Ohio | #661 | 5 | 1 in 15,305 |
| New York | #796 | 9 | 1 in 12,983 |
| California | #842 | 14 | 1 in 15,169 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Remington
- 20 spots since 2024 (#287 → #307)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#230 → #307)
- 9 spots since 2015 (#298 → #307)
- Biggest jump: 2,260 spots in 1983 (#3,108 → #848)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 1985 (#944 → #1,110)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2019 at #227 (1,658 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1989–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,063 boys born in 2020 were named Remington (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,546 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- Its best rank, #227 in 2019, was only 1 in 1,082 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.9% of all boys named Remington (11,017) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 642 | #839 (1989) | #1,281 |
| 1990s | 1,608 | #729 (1998) | #865 |
| 2000s | 2,555 | #582 (2009) | #785 |
| 2010s | 11,017 | #227 (2019) | #338 |
| 2020s | 8,145 | #230 (2020) | #263 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Remington in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 20,745 of them was named Remington, which outranked 87.1% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #938Dustan88
- #938Lamarcus88
- #938Torrey88
- #944Remington87
- #944Chadd87
- #944Christina87
- #944Dedrick87
- #951Anwar86
- #951Eliseo86
- #951Garland86
Tied with 6 names at #944; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.