girls:
1.2k births since 1907
#4525 (21st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1921
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1907
#6537 (16th percentile)
The name Rema is the #6,537 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,203 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 15.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,525 (20.8% percentile) for all time with 1,193 births since 1907. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1921.
Rema first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1921 for boys). Birth data for Rema is available in 109 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rema has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rema reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #567) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 29 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rema ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 17.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rema reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #551) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rema".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rema is pronounced as REE-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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