Remi ranks #411 with 303 entries, registered female-leaning. The spelling is the modern American re-cut of the older Remy, which itself shortens the French Rémi (from Remigius, an early Christian saint name). The -i ending pushes it firmly into contemporary pet-naming territory rather than the dustier Latinate register.
The spelling split
Remi vs. Remy is the kind of split that says a lot about an owner. Remy reads slightly more bistro-French and unisex; Remi reads softer, more current, and tilts female on the chart. The 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille put the Remy spelling in front of a generation of viewers, and the pet-naming spillover landed on both versions.
Sound fit and breed lean
Two syllables (REH-mee), front-stressed, ending on a singing vowel that carries well across a yard. Recall is strong. The name lands comfortably on small-to-mid breeds with a slightly elegant lean — Cavaliers, Maltipoos, Cockapoos, and the smaller Poodles all wear it well, especially in white-and-cream coat colorings.
The unisex-edge counter-reading
Worth flagging: despite the female lean in the data, Remi reads cleanly on male pets too, and a non-trivial share of owners do pick it that way. If you want a genuinely unisex name that does not feel forced, Remi is a solid bet. The human Remi page shows a similar pattern of climbing recent adoption with a soft female tilt, mirroring the pet-naming trajectory almost exactly across age cohorts.