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Remus

#5,787 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Remus has been given to 956 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #5,787 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Remus, 2025

1 in 207,000

Remus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Remus: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Latin

What Remus means

Remus is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Remus is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Remus comes through Latin Remus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 956 boys were recorded with the name Remus between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,083 in 1889.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,822 in 2020 to #5,787 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,570 in 2015 to #5,787 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Remus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,787
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Remus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Remus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Remuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Remus was born before 1969 — so the typical Remus is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
586
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Choose a decade

2010s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Remus 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
+3,883
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−965
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,783
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2019 (28)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,083
1889

Spellings of Remus

Remus is not the most common spelling — Jesus is, with 75.3% against Remus's 0.29%.

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 Remus is used

Across 1910–2025, Remus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,227,344 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Remus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Remus around the world

Where Remus 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 & Wales
    2005–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1928–2023
    #6,407
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2017–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1998–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Remus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,787
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 965
Best rank ever
#1,083
1889
Peak year
2019
28 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
956
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Remus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Remus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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