Entry № 8646 · French origin

Remi Remi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Oarsman (Remi from Ratatouille; Remi Wolf, modern pop)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "oarsman (remi from ratatouille; remi wolf, modern pop)".

Remi is from the Latin Remigius ("oarsman, rower") — most famously borne by Saint Remigius (c. Saint Remi of Reims (Remigius) — performed Clovis's baptism in 496, considered the event of medieval France; his cathedral at Reims is one of the oldest in France. Remi Garde — French football manager. The unisex use of Remi as a girl's first name in the US first entered top-1000 in 2014; remains slightly more common for girls than boys in the US.

Oarsman (Remi from Ratatouille; Remi Wolf, modern pop) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Rémi
Transliteration
Rémi
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɛm.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Remi stands.

Remi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Remis before her.

Real people
Saint Remi of Reims
Baptized Clovis I 496.
c. 437 – 533
Remi Wolf
American indie-pop singer.
born 1996
Remi Adeleke
Nigerian-American Navy SEAL.
born 1983
In fiction
Remy
Pixar's Ratatouille.
2007

Names connected to Remi.

The number behind Remi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Remi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.