Remer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymisch zu Rufname Raginmar; teils auch zu Berufsname Riemer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈʁeːmɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Remer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 174K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 286K
- CZCzechia1 in 345K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)
1,912 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymisch zu Rufname Raginmar; teils auch zu Berufsname Riemer. Belegt mit Varianten wie Reimer, Reimert, Remmert, Reinbrecht.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Remer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,912 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Remer | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 170 | 1 in 1.2M | 170 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 134 | 1 in 286K | 70 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 31 | 1 in 345K | 31 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 1 |
1,912 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Remer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, rower, oarsman
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)- Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remerb. 1775DEGerman chemist
- Vincenzo Remerb. 1843ITItalian Jesuit (1843-1910)
- Aleksandr Remerb. 1856LVarchitect and civil engineer from the Russian Empire
- Richard Remerb. 1883USAmerican racewalker (1883-1973)
- John Remerb. 1883GBBritish politician (1883-1948)
- Jerzy Remerb. 1888PLPolish restorer, museologist, art historian
- Rubye De Remerb. 1892USAmerican actress (1892-1984)
- Willi Remerb. 1909DEmodern pentathlete
- Otto Ernst Remerb. 1912DEGerman Regiment/Division Army Officer in the Wehrmacht (1912-1997)
- Antun Remercyclist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,081 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170 | #41,943 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 70 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #39,085 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #42,319 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 31 | #40,668 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 31 | #13,108 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #57,471 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,649 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Remer?
- In German /ˈʁeːmɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Remer mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymisch zu Rufname Raginmar; teils auch zu Berufsname Riemer.
- In which country does Remer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Remer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled remer.
- Where is Remer most common?
- Remer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 174 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Remer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,912 people named Remer in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/remerThe 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, “Remer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.