Ramsay
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to boys 83.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1948 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 388since 1922
Ramsay 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | — | #6,479 | 13 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | — | #8,781 | 8 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1922
The first year at least five boys were named Ramsay! It came in at #3,872, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ramsay is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ramsay in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ramsay
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,224 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #9,714)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #9,714)
- 930 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1948 at #3,010 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1949, 1 yr 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 115,685
- Highest: 1 in 115,685 boys born in 2017 were named Ramsay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,010 in 1948, was only 1 in 250,660 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 23.7% of all boys named Ramsay (92) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
- Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #3,872 (1922) | #4,012 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,763 (1931) | #3,763 |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,274 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,364 (1951) | #3,654 |
| 1960s | 16 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,872 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,634 (1974) | #4,771 |
| 1980s | 54 | #4,593 (1982) | #5,389 |
| 1990s | 49 | #6,128 (1992) | #7,136 |
| 2000s | 70 | #6,316 (2000) | #8,620 |
| 2010s | 92 | #5,526 (2017) | #8,370 |
| 2020s | 57 | #5,776 (2021) | #8,453 |
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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