Remy

Remy comes from the French Rémy, descended from the Latin Remigius, connected to remex, an oarsman, with Saint Rémi of Reims presiding over the baptism of Clovis in 496 and thus, in a sense, the birth of France. The Ratatouille rat gave it animated charm; the cognac house Rémy Martin gave it a whiff of oak and amber. It crosses genders with Gallic ease, drifting onto U.S. charts as both. Ranked 400, it shares streetlamp-lit territory with Milo and Wren. Two syllables, the soft French R, the bright ee at the close. Urbane, cinematic, a little mischievous.