Meaning not yet researched.
Remington: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,105 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 2019; #307 in 2025. About 66% of babies named Remington in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#307 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #227.
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Remington: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,105 boys in 2025. Peak: #227 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,658 (2019).
In 2025, 1,105 US boys were named Remington, making it the 307th most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #287 in 2024. That is 67 fewer than the 1,172 boys named Remington in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #227, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,658. For comparison, it was #298 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 580 US girls were named Remington, making it the 513th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4 places from #517 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 596 girls named Remington in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #347, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 897. For comparison, it was #623 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Remington in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 34,095 US babies have been given the name, 30% of them girls and 70% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 15,708 babies named Remington.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,274 US boys were named Remington; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,658. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,546 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Remington ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #70 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Remmington, Remingtyn and Remyngton are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Remmington (705), Remingtyn (207), Remyngton (38), Remingtin (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Remington in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 26 | #70 | #93 |
| Idaho | 23 | #112 | #262 |
| Kentucky | 42 | #135 | #221 |
| Ohio | 88 | #157 | #208 |
| Tennessee | 60 | #162 | #200 |
| Kansas | 23 | #172 | #182 |
| Indiana | 48 | #180 | #224 |
| Missouri | 38 | #191 | #145 |
| Maine | 7 | #197 | — |
| Alabama | 28 | #206 | #234 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #210 | #194 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #219 | #104 |
| South Carolina | 25 | #232 | #231 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #234 | #198 |
| Colorado | 28 | #234 | #471 |
| Michigan | 43 | #240 | #176 |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #279 | #277 |
| Washington | 27 | #279 | #376 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #280 | #279 |
| North Carolina | 43 | #293 | #275 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #307 | #230 |
| Illinois | 35 | #312 | #300 |
| Utah | 15 | #323 | #142 |
| Florida | 54 | #368 | #445 |
| Iowa | 10 | #369 | #196 |
| Minnesota | 16 | #370 | #365 |
| Arizona | 21 | #374 | #320 |
| Virginia | 22 | #380 | #287 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #415 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #466 | #249 |
| Texas | 71 | #472 | #336 |
| Georgia | 23 | #479 | #315 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #492 | #419 |
| New York | 25 | #616 | #589 |
| California | 46 | #625 | #538 |
| Maryland | 7 | #679 | #296 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #682 | #610 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #689 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 580 | #513 | 1,105 | #307 |
| 2024 | 596 | #517 | 1,172 | #287 |
| 2023 | 732 | #418 | 1,193 | #283 |
| 2022 | 786 | #399 | 1,456 | #242 |
| 2021 | 897 | #347 | 1,595 | #231 |
| 2020 | 860 | #361 | 1,624 | #230 |
| 2019 | 837 | #375 | 1,658 | #227 |
| 2018 | 869 | #362 | 1,541 | #245 |
| 2017 | 759 | #419 | 1,512 | #247 |
| 2016 | 704 | #456 | 1,418 | #254 |
| 2015 | 462 | #623 | 1,208 | #298 |
| 2014 | 413 | #687 | 1,114 | #313 |
| 2013 | 242 | #1,032 | 874 | #360 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,422 | 669 | #421 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,707 | 555 | #478 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,734 | 468 | #543 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,874 | 453 | #582 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,414 | 320 | #724 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,160 | 272 | #795 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,910 | 265 | #782 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,519 | 228 | #825 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,956 | 221 | #815 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,871 | 214 | #821 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,546 | 185 | #885 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,531 | 192 | #844 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,010 | 205 | #794 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,522 | 223 | #733 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,684 | 225 | #731 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,725 | 198 | #754 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,663 | 163 | #855 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,775 | 140 | #941 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,837 | 155 | #863 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,947 | 122 | #982 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,406 | 127 | #953 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,162 | 130 | #932 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,670 | 125 | #925 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,957 | 142 | #843 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,359 | 88 | #1,062 |
| 1987 | — | — | 73 | #1,129 |
| 1986 | — | — | 62 | #1,224 |
| 1985 | — | — | 70 | #1,115 |
| 1984 | — | — | 87 | #949 |
| 1983 | — | — | 106 | #852 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,251 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,645 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,280 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).