Rema
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 265K
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rema 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Rema | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Rema | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Rema | 64 |
| US United States | 1,254 | 1 in 265K | 1.2K | Rema | 218 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Rema | 16 |
| IL Israel | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Rema | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Rema | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 33 | 1 in 23K | 33 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rema is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, rheme (part of a sentence that provides new information)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to throw away, to discard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, dated spelling of réma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, hyrax, coney
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ki, to disobey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ve, to chop
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)
- Rema Samsonovb. 1921ILIsraeli singer
- Rem Blumb. 1925EEnot in their usual nameEstonian philosopher of Jewish origin (1925-1989)
- Rema Hammamib. 1960USPalestinian-American anthropologist
- Rema Namakulab. 1991UGUgandan singer songwriter and music producer
- Rema Fazalactress
- Rema HannaUSeconomist (Harvard University)
- Rema LapouseUSAmerican professor of community medicine and psychiatry
- Rema A. AfifiUSresearcher
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 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rema a male or female name?
- Rema is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Rema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Rema in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rema.
- How common is the name Rema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,254 people named Rema in 2020, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/remaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.