Remington
Remington is a unisex name of English origin meaning “settlement on a river bank.” It ranked #307 in the United States in 2025. Remington is an English place name meaning 'settlement on a riverbank.
how do you pronounce Remington?
REM-ing-ton
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what does Remington mean?
The name Remington means “settlement on a river bank.” It comes from the English language tradition.
Remington is an English place name meaning 'settlement on a riverbank.' It carries strong American associations through the Remington firearms company and Frederic Remington, whose sculptures and paintings defined the visual identity of the American West. The name has a bold, adventurous quality for either gender.
where does the name Remington come from?
Wiktionary derives the Remington surname from an element meaning edge or border plus -ing and -ton, glossing the whole as 'settlement by the boundary stream' — a narrower and somewhat different sense than the 'settlement on a river bank' gloss given elsewhere. The Wikipedia source retrieved is only a bare list of notable people named Remington and offers no derivation of its own, so it doesn't confirm the meaning either way.
the history of Remington
Nothing in the sources retrieved confirms the Remington firearms company or Frederic Remington associations mentioned elsewhere; the Wikipedia list documents only that Remington is used as a given name, without further history.
how popular is this name?
| Year | Rank |
|---|---|
| 2025 | #307 |
| 2024 | #287 |
| 2023 | #283 |
| 2022 | #242 |
| 2021 | #231 |
| 2020 | #230 |
Source: SSA National Baby Names Dataset
what are the nicknames and variants of Remington?
Nicknames
who are famous people named Remington?
- Frederic Remington (American painter and sculptor of the Old West)
- Remington Steele (title character of the 1980s TV series)
what names go well with Remington?
Sibling names that share Remington's rhythm and register without echoing it too closely.
Last reviewed April 30, 2026 · Curated by HushName editorial
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