Rémi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rémi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Du latin Remigius, probablement lié à remex/remigis « rameur »; fête le 15 janvier (saint Rémi, évêque de Reims).
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rémi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 378 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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 Remi in FR France, US United States, NG Nigeria and 4 more.
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)
Du latin Remigius, probablement lié à remex/remigis « rameur »; fête le 15 janvier (saint Rémi, évêque de Reims).
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rémi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #736 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Remi | 67 |
| FR France | #189 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 90K | Remi | 378 |
| US United States | — | 13,657as Remy | 1 in 24K | 9.5K | Remi | 316 |
| CA Canada | #900 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 28 | Remi | 162 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Remi | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,228 | 1 in 95K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,472 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.4K | Remi | 44 |
| BE Belgium | #700 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 3.5K | Remi | 73 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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)
Rémi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du latin Remigius; saint Rémi de Reims, fêté le 1er octobre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin *Remigius*; saint Remi, évêque de Reims.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Latin: 'remedy'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, ) Rémy [re'mi]: männl. Vom., französische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Rémi Bragueb. 1947FRFrench philosopher
- Rémi Laurentb. 1957FRFrench actor (1957–1989)
- Rémi Martinb. 1965FRFrench actor
- Rémi Gardeb. 1966FRFrench football manager
- Rémi Bezançonb. 1971FRFrench film director
- Rémi Gaillardb. 1975FRFrench humorist and animal rights activist
- Rémi Mathisb. 1982FRFrench historian and librarian
- Rémi Marévalb. 1983FRassociation football player
- Rémi Feutrierb. 1989JPJapanese handball player
- Rémi Cavagnab. 1995FRFrench bicycle racer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 90K | #673 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Rémi a male or female name?
- Rémi 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 does the name Rémi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du latin Remigius, probablement lié à remex/remigis « rameur »; fête le 15 janvier (saint Rémi, évêque de Reims).
- What are other forms of the name Rémi?
- In the etymology graph, Remigio, Rémy and Remigiusz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rémi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Rémi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled remi.
- How common is the name Rémi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,228 people named Rémi in 2022, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Rémi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Rémi is the 736th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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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, “Rémi” — the 736th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.