Remington

The surname spread across England before traveling to colonial North America in the 17th century.

One of the earliest documented American bearers was John Remington, who emigrated from Lord Ship Moor in the 1630s and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts. His descendants established branches throughout New England and eventually New York State.

The name acquired its characteristic American associations through Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861), who founded the Remington Arms Company in Ilion, New York, in 1816, and through the painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861-1909), whose bronzes

and canvases of cowboys, cavalrymen, and Native peoples shaped the visual vocabulary of the American West.

The Remington typewriter, first produced in 1873, added another layer of industrial familiarity.

Remington first appeared in the U.S. SSA top 1000 for boys in 2002 and climbed through the 2010s to reach roughly number 190 by 2023.

The name has also risen rapidly for girls during the same period, a pattern common among American surname-style names. It holds particular strength in Texas, the Mountain West, and the Deep South, where Western and frontier associations resonate.

Contemporary bearers include country singer Remington Leith and several American television characters, notably the detective Remington Steele, played by Pierce Brosnan in the 1982 series of the same name.