Remo
Masculine
Remo is the Italian for Remus, and Remus is the brother who lost. Rome's founding story ends with one twin killing the other over the line of a wall, and the survivor gives the city its name while the loser gives his to a smaller, quieter set of people. Italy has used it steadily anyway, which says something about how a country holds its own myths.
How old is the name Remo?
Remo first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Remo alive today was born around 1940, making them about 85 years old. About 500 people named Remo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Remo most popular?
Remo peaked in 1932, reaching #1198 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,810 places below that high. See the whole 1932 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Remus to Remo
The story of Remo
The twins were said to have been raised by a she-wolf and to have quarreled over where and how to found their city; Remus is killed, and Romulus builds. The name survived as an ordinary Italian one, and it has a modern life on the Ligurian coast that has nothing to do with the myth: the resort town of Sanremo takes its name not from any Saint Remo but from San Romolo, worn down in the local dialect until it looked like a different saint entirely. The name reached American records with Italian migration, and it has stayed small and steady since.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nobody knows what Remus meant. The Romans themselves offered explanations after the fact, and modern scholarship treats the name as older than the language's records — possibly Etruscan, possibly connected to the older form of Rome's own name. Any meaning offered for it confidently is a reconstruction rather than a finding.
How the name formed
- Remus
- Remo
Related forms: Remo · Remus · Remo
Pronouncing Remo
REH-moh
Two syllables, stress on the first, both vowels pure and short in Italian. English speakers usually say REE-moh, lengthening the first vowel, which is the only common variation.
Nicknames for Remo
Limited
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
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 193232 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1198reached in 1932
- Change vs 2022
- −28.6%5 in 2025, from 7
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.
Remo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Remo in Italian — same name
- Remus in Latin — same name
- Remo in Spanish — same name
Remos among us
people named Remo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Remo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ciro test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Remo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ciro climbed just as high around 1907, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ciro's path sketches the road Remo is walking now.
Remo 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
Remo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Remo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters, two open syllables, and no possible difficulty for any speaker.
- It is a genuine Italian name with a classical figure behind it rather than a modern shortening.
- The final vowel makes it sit well with long or consonant-heavy surnames.
- The figure it names is famously the one who dies in the story, which anyone who knows the myth will recall.
- In English-speaking countries it may be met first through a fictional wolf in a series of children's books.
- Its meaning cannot be given honestly, which disappoints the first question people ask.
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Masculine · #12008 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Remos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Remo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Remo in 2025?
- Remo ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Remo?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Remo — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Remo with classmates?
- Remo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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