Thirty years of Remy
Remy in numbers
Remy is still climbing: from 16 boys in 1996 to 476 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2018 and 2021, from 221 to 385. On average it was given to 18 boys a year in the late 1990s, 25 in the 2000s, 116 in the 2010s and 396 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+1%472 to 476
- 5 years+74%273 to 476
- 10 years+240%140 to 476
- 20 years+1,222%36 to 476
- Since 1996×3016 to 476
- Total, 1996 to 20253,865boys
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 112 · ONS · 472 in 2024
Rank 170 · NRS · 22 in 2024
Rank 185 · NISRA · 15 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | 476 | +1% | 1 in 632 |
| 2024 | 112 | 472 | +10% | 1 in 646 |
| 2023 | 125 | 429 | +26% | 1 in 706 |
| 2022 | =154 | 341 | -11% | 1 in 911 |
| 2021 | 148 | 385 | +41% | 1 in 831 |
| 2020 | =189 | 273 | +28% | 1 in 1,152 |
| 2019 | 235 | 214 | -3% | 1 in 1,538 |
| 2018 | =232 | 221 | +47% | 1 in 1,528 |
| 2017 | =326 | 150 | +10% | 1 in 2,320 |
| 2016 * | =344 | 136 | -3% | 1 in 2,618 |
| 2015 | =334 | 140 | +51% | 1 in 2,558 |
| 2014 | =434 | 93 | +33% | 1 in 3,836 |
| 2013 | =524 | 70 | +21% | 1 in 5,120 |
| 2012 | =606 | 58 | +29% | 1 in 6,454 |
| 2011 | =701 | 45 | +22% | 1 in 8,244 |
| 2010 | =792 | 37 | +28% | 1 in 10,026 |
| 2009 | =923 | 29 | -9% | 1 in 12,487 |
| 2008 | =850 | 32 | +3% | 1 in 11,342 |
| 2007 | =848 | 31 | -11% | 1 in 11,434 |
| 2006 | =733 | 35 | -3% | 1 in 9,783 |
| 2005 | =705 | 36 | +57% | 1 in 9,183 |
| 2004 | =906 | 23 | +10% | 1 in 14,275 |
| 2003 | =912 | 21 | +91% | 1 in 15,163 |
| 2002 | =1,322 | 11 | -42% | 1 in 27,822 |
| 2001 | =883 | 19 | +19% | 1 in 16,032 |
| 2000 | =953 | 16 | -33% | 1 in 19,351 |
| 1999 | =697 | 24 | +118% | 1 in 13,302 |
| 1998 | =1,188 | 11 | -48% | 1 in 29,627 |
| 1997 | =759 | 21 | +31% | 1 in 15,694 |
| 1996 | =898 | 16 | 1 in 20,843 |
* ONS’s boys’ 2016 file repeats the October total as September, so the 2016 births total is about 932 too low and 1 in X for 2016 is slightly too low. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate