Rema
#12,897 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rema has been given to 1,217 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #12,897 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Rema, 2025
1 in 474,000
Rema over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rema?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,897
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rema sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Remas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rema was born before 1964 — so the typical Rema is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 13.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 711
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 13.0% of all recorded uses (157).
Is Rema rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +2,008
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,989
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,117
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.0%
- Peak was 1918 (28)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Rema
Rema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 23.9% against Rema's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Rema is used
Across 1910–2025, Rema was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 481,836 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 2Arkansas1 in —
- 3California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rema around the world
Where Rema ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2023#4,710in 2023
- Canada2002–2023#2,222in 2023
- South Australia1963–1975#675in 1975
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rema by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Rema
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rema
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.