Remington is an English surname from a place name in Lancashire that combines an old stream name with the Old English tun, "settlement", so roughly "settlement by the stream". In America the name is tied to the Remington firearms company and to the artist Frederic Remington, who painted the Old West. Remington climbed from number 794 in 2000 to a peak of 227 in 2019 and ranks 307th among boys' names in 2025.