# Remington (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/remington/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English habitational surname from Old English; (art) used specifically of Frederic Remington (1861–1909), an American artist who specialized in depictions of the Old West.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 5,881 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,865 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 52,499 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.4% (5,632 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹɛmɪŋtən/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Remington in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Remington in the United States.

## People named Remington

- Frederic Remington, American painter and sculptor (1861-1909)
- Eliphalet Remington, American firearm designer (1793–1861)
- Philo Remington, American businessman (1816–1889)

## Similar surnames

Romans, Romanowski, Renninger, Ronning, Romines, Rominger, Running, Runions.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.