Rimer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME rimen 'to rime' or AFr rimour, rymour 'a rimer, poet'; first attested Warin Rymer 1229 Pat (Yorkshire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹaɪmɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rimer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 94Kas Ример(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 109Kas Riemer
- RURussia≈1 in 311Kas Ример
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
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, CN China.
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)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Ример | 3 |
| US United States | 3,039as Riemer | 1 in 109K | 3K | Rimer | 247 |
| GH Ghana | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Rimer | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Ример | 96 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 249K | 108 | Rimer | 55 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 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 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Rimer | 1 |
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)
- Salomon Rimerb. 1858PLPolish architect
- משה אוישערb. 1907USnot in their usual nameJewish American actor and cantor (1907–1958)
- Fraydele Oysherb. 1913USnot in their usual nameactor (1913–2004)
- Jeff Rimerb. 1955USCanadian sportscaster
- Neil Rimerb. 1963CAVenture Capitalist
- Danny Rimerb. 1970CACanadian businessman
- 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)
Attested in 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,715 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 140 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 108 | #31,572 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #12,324 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 24 | #32,062 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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
- 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹaɪmɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rimer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Rimer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ример.
- 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?
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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 2026-10-10.