Remedy
Feminine · “cure”
Remedy is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 887 girls against 21 boys since 1880.
Remedy descends from the Latin remedium — literally a healing back — and the medeor behind it also gives medicine and meditate.
How old is the name Remedy?
Remedy first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Remedy is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Remedy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Remedy most popular?
Remedy peaked in 2023, reaching #1762 nationally. Today it ranks #2139, 377 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
Where it comes from
From mederi to Remedy
The story of Remedy
Mederi meant to look after or take measures, and the root produced both medicine and meditation — attending to a body and attending to a thought. Remedy entered American given-name use recently among the virtue and word-names and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
cure, healing
From the Latin remedium, from re- and mederi, 'to heal' or 'to attend to'. The same root gives medicine, medical and, through a sense of measuring and attending, meditate. The etymology is documented and the family unusually rich.
How the name formed
- mederi
- remedium
- remedy
- Remedy
Related forms: Remedios · Remedium
Pronouncing Remedy
REM-uh-dee
Three syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Remedy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2006
- Most girls named
- 2023116 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1762reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +6.1%87 in 2025, from 82
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Remedy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Remedios in Spanish — related form
- Remedium in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Ohio.
Remedys among us
people named Remedy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,474 born in 2025 was named Remedy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Remedy
- #2139
- Remedy on the 2025 chart
- #845
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Remedy went to 87 girls in 2025, but Remedi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 115, which makes it the 845th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,294 places above the chart.
- Remedy87
- Remedi28
About 1 girl in 13,976 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,474 for Remedy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rheanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Remedy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rheanna climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rheanna's path sketches the road Remedy is walking now.
Remedy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Remedy is headed
Remedy looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Remedy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Remedy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That medicine and meditate share a root meaning 'to attend to' is a first-rate etymology.
- Remy is available as a short form with a real record.
- The Spanish Remedios gives it a genuine devotional precedent.
- It is an ordinary English noun and reads as one.
- It is very new as a given name.
- Three syllables make it moderately long for everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Remedys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Remedy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Remedy?
- Remedy is the most-used spelling in US records — 87 of the 115 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Remedi.
- How popular is the name Remedy in 2025?
- Remedy ranks #2139 among US girl names in 2025, with 87 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Remedy?
- About 1 in every 18,474 US girls born in 2025 was named Remedy — 87 in all.
- Will my child share the name Remedy with classmates?
- Remedy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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