Ramey
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to boys 57.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1976 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 573since 1913
Ramey over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | — | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | — | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #1,502 | 36 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | #1,530 | 34 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1913
The first year at least five boys were named Ramey! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ramey is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ramey in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ramey
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 90 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #10,695)
- 1,127 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
63 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1976 at #1,502 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 43,584
- Highest: 1 in 43,584 boys born in 1976 were named Ramey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
- 27.7% of all boys named Ramey (159) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2023
- Mostly boys until 2022, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #2,821 (1913) | #3,358 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,247 (1929) | #3,369 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,480 |
| 1940s | 17 | #2,453 (1949) | #2,662 |
| 1950s | 40 | #2,628 (1956) | #3,338 |
| 1960s | 58 | #2,907 (1968) | #3,314 |
| 1970s | 159 | #1,502 (1976) | #2,874 |
| 1980s | 85 | #3,615 (1980) | #4,739 |
| 1990s | 72 | #5,656 (1999) | #6,549 |
| 2000s | 58 | #6,445 (2001) | #7,047 |
| 2010s | 21 | #8,789 (2013) | #9,709 |
| 2020s | 20 | #8,990 (2022) | #10,097 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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