Remington is of English origin and its meaning is ‘town by the river’. The name is a combination of the Old English words ‘hremm’ (river), ‘ing’ (place), and ‘ton’ (town).
Remington is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
The name Remington is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #364 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Remington is of English origin and its meaning is ‘town by the river’. The name is a combination of the Old English words ‘hremm’ (river), ‘ing’ (place), and ‘ton’ (town).
For several centuries... Remington was mostly in use as a surname with a quite a history. The name was first documented in the 14th century. Today, Remington as a given name is especially popular in the U.S..
Remington is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Remington cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #274 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2020. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Remington, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their newborn child. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Remington seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Remington was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,217 babies were named Remington in 2022 - that's 1 in 149,121 newborns. With this number, the first name Remington ranked 303 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 4.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common initial letters of first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With nine letters, the name Remington is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Remington and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Remington, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Mouse
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Remington
Remington
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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M
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Remington sounds like this:
