Remedy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- REM-eh-dee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #2,139 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Remedy is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “cure, remedy”. In 2025 it ranked 2,139th for girls in the US (87 babies).
What does Remedy mean?
English: English word, from Latin remedium
“cure, remedy”
From the English word for a cure, via Anglo-Norman French from Latin remedium.
Is Remedy a girl's or a boy's name?
Remedy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 87 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Remedy in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 3 girls.
Remedy in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
How popular is Remedy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,139th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 87 about 1 in 18,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 87 girls in the US were named Remedy, making it the 2,139th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,631st. Its busiest year was 2023, with 116 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Remedy in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 115 girls in the US were given Remedy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #2,139 for this spelling alone.
- Remedy 87
- Remedi 28
Remedy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,139 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,265 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,762 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,103 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,460 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,631 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,962 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,200 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,435 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,849 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,885 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
Nicknames for Remedy
- Remi 388 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Remedy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Bryony, Cassidy, Ruby, Royalty, Riley, Daisy, Melody, Lily, Ivy, Everly, Dilly, Kennedy
Other spellings of Remedy
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison, River, Ellie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Remedy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/remedy, updated 20 October 2026.