Given name & surname
Remigius
“rower”
Remigius is a masculine given name. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Remigius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Remigius’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Remigius has a short form in Remy. In Latin usage, Remigius has a later derivative in Remigio. In Latin usage, Remigius has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form REMIGIUSZ.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Remigius has relatives in 7 languages.
7 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Remigioderivative · Tagalog, Spanish
- Remickequivalent
- Remigijusequivalent
- Rémyequivalent
- Remigiequivalent
- Remigequivalent
- Remiigiderivative · gsw
- RemigiuszPolish
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People named Remigius
- Saint RemigiusFrench archbishop and saint437–533
- Remigius of AuxerreFrench philosopher and theologian841–908
- Remigius of RouenArchbishop of Rouen
- Remigius MachuraCzechoslovak shot putterborn 1960
- Remigijus LupeikisLithuanian cyclistborn 1968
- Remi Drieuxbishop of Leeuwarden1518–1594
- Remigius FaeschSwiss art historian1595–1667
- Remigius of StrasbourgFrench priest800–783
- Remigius de FécampBishop of Lincoln1050–1092
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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