Remington
- Pronunciation
- [Re-min-gton]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- From The Raven Farm
- Origin
- English
About the Name Remington
Remington is an English place-name and surname meaning "raven's town" or "settlement of Hreman" — from Old English hrafn (raven) plus tūn (town, settlement). The surname identified medieval English families originating from villages with this geography. The name's most consequential American cultural anchor is the Remington Arms Company — the firearms manufacturer founded in 1816 in upstate New York, one of the oldest and most-iconic American firearms brands.
The single most influential modern fictional bearer is probably Remington Steele, the title character of the NBC television series Remington Steele (1982–1987), played by Pierce Brosnan — whose smooth detective character anchored the name in 1980s American cultural memory. The American typewriter brand Remington Typewriter (1873) and the Remington art (Frederic Remington, 1861–1909, the iconic American Western painter and sculptor) provide additional cultural anchors.
Remington's transition from surname to American first name is essentially a 21st-century phenomenon. The name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2005 to the US top 200 boys' rank by 2018 and the top 200 since. The name has been used predominantly for boys but has occasional girls' usage. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the surname-style sophistication, the in-built Western-Americana firearm/typewriter register, and the strong masculine four-syllable rhythm with hard consonants. Common nicknames Remi (the dominant short form, gender-neutral), Rem, Remy, and the rare Tonny each carry distinct registers; the alternate spelling Remmington (with double M) has its own SSA tracking but is less common. There are no significant international variants since the name's first-name use is essentially American.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Remington
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Remington by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2019 with 1,658 boys named Remington (boy rank #227 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #307 for boys (1,105 US births). That's 80 places below its 2019 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Remington Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Remington the strongest states are West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont.
Strongest boys-name states
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Jersey | #673 | 80 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | #519 | 90 |
| 3 | California | #447 | 735 |
| 4 | New York | #445 | 348 |
| 5 | Connecticut | #389 | 47 |
| 6 | Texas | #375 | 874 |
| 7 | Maryland | #357 | 157 |
| 8 | Florida | #340 | 521 |
| 9 | New Mexico | #337 | 41 |
| 10 | Nevada | #319 | 88 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Remington in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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