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Rhemi

Gender
Girl
Say it
REM-ee
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Rhemi is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “oarsman”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Rhemi mean?

Latin: variant of Remy, from Latin Remigius

“oarsman”

A spelling of Remy, from Saint Remigius (Rémi), the bishop of Reims who baptised the Frankish king Clovis.

Is Rhemi a girl's or a boy's name?

Rhemi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Rhemi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 27% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Rhemi, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

2025 had fewer girls named Rhemi than any year since 2014.

Half of all the girls named Rhemi in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,534 girls in the US were given Rhemi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #135, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 26 in 20162025
Rhemi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
202412#8,438
202321#5,747
202211#9,050
202116#6,962
202019#6,079
201923#5,445
201817#6,788
201718#6,527
201626#5,129
201513#8,443
201410#10,124
20130–
201212#9,105
20110–
20105#16,985
20096#15,236

Names like Rhemi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Rhemi

Names related to Rhemi

More Latin names

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Rhemi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rhemi, updated 20 October 2026.