Rimer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME rimen 'to rime' or AFr rimour, rymour 'a rimer, poet'; first attested Warin Rymer 1229 Pat (Yorkshire)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/rimɛr/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rimer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 137K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 170Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 210Kfew records
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 Rimer 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
3,039 named Riemer, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ример in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)from ME rimen 'to rime' or AFr rimour, rymour 'a rimer, poet'; first attested Warin Rymer 1229 Pat (Yorkshire)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rimer is found
(measured from records)Rimer 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 | 3,039as Riemer | 1 in 109K | 3K | Rimer | 247 |
| GH Ghana | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Rimer | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Ример | 96 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 108 | Rimer | 55 |
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 326K | listed | Rimer | 51 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 70 | Ример | 29 |
| DK Denmark | 149as Riemer | 1 in 39K | 149 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 140 | 1 in 325K | 140 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 77as Riemer | 1 in 109K | 77 | Rimer | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Rimer | 1 |
3,039 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling riemer. 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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)Rimer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to rhyme (of two words, whose final syllables are the same)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present active subjunctive of rīmor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, to recount a tale, especially by rhyming
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, present of rime
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)- משה אוישערb. 1907USnot in their usual nameJewish American actor and cantor (1907–1958)
- Fraydele Oysherb. 1913USnot in their usual nameactor (1913–2004)
- Bingo Rimérb. 1975SESwedish photographer
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rimer mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME rimen 'to rime' or AFr rimour, rymour 'a rimer, poet'; first attested Warin Rymer 1229 Pat (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Rimer?
- In Spanish /rimɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rimer?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Riemer, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ghana, Russia, United Kingdom and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rimer?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 140 people named Rimer, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rimer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rimerThe 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, “Rimer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.