Remi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Latin origin; from Remigius, probably related to remex 'rower' or the tribe of the Remi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁemi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Remi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- 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 Remi 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:
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)
Latin origin; from Remigius, probably related to remex 'rower' or the tribe of the Remi.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Remi is read(measured from records)
Remi is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French73%
Latin origin; from Remigius, probably related to remex 'rower' or the tribe of the Remi.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English13%
A Belgic tribe dwelling in the Aisne, Vesle and Suippe river valleys during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ancient Gaulish people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Remi 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)
Remi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In enm, alternative form of remen (“to extend; to get up”)
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)
- Remi Schrijnenb. 1921BEBelgian recipient of the Knights Cross (1921-2006)
- Remi Asōb. 1944JPJapanese singer
- Remi Hiranob. 1947JPJapanese tarento and singer
- Remi Adefarasinb. 1948GBBritish cinematographer
- Remi Aubuchonb. 1950USAmerican television writer/producer
- Remi Broadwayb. 1978AUAustralian actor
- Remi Chibab. 1983JPJapanese actor
- Stefan Strandbergb. 1990NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian association football player
- Remi Mayamab. 1992JPJapanese actor
- Remi Wolfb. 1996USAmerican singer, songwriter and record producer
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 99 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.5K | #2,179 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4.4K | #685 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.8K | #4,822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #2,179 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.1K | #4,758 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 550 | #2,178 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 323 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 154 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 148 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Remi a male or female name?
- Remi 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 Remi?
- In the etymology graph, Remy and Remigijus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Remi mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin origin; from Remigius, probably related to remex 'rower' or the tribe of the Remi. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Remi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁemi/ (IPA) for French.
- How common is the name Remi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,228 people named Remi in 2022, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Remi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Remi is the 736th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Remi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Remi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled remi.
What do you want to know about Remi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/remiThe 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, “Remi” — the 736th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.