Ramses

#1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births

Peak · boys
2008 · 152 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,460
since 1970

Ramses over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ramses has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #1,175, 2008boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#1,70895
2024#1,448125
2023#1,508117
2022#1,652104
2021#1,514117
2020#1,70791
2019#1,523111
2018#1,453120
2017#1,321136
2016#1,386127
2015#1,468114
2014#1,59798
2013#1,63693
2012#1,74286
2011#1,533103
2010#1,503108
2009#1,367125
2008#1,175152
2007#1,380119
2006#1,350120
2005#1,216130
2004#1,47792
2003#1,61178
2002#1,41492
2001#1,47283
2000#1,46684
1999#1,73359
1998#2,04046
1997#2,02444
1996#2,38033
1995#1,86446
1994#2,50230
1993#2,78625
1992#2,30332
1991#2,22732
1990#2,12834
1989#2,69023
1988#3,07917
1987#2,64120
1986#2,77918
1985#4,3339
1984#3,10714
1983#2,67617
1982#3,28213
1981#2,56918
1980#2,53619
1979#3,35712
1978#3,07013
1977#2,79115
1976#3,47110
1975#3,42810
1974#2,94612
1973#5,1015
1972#3,6228
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Ramses! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Ramses is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more boys named Ramses in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ramses
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 260 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,708)
  • 1 spot since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,708)
  • 240 spots since 2015 (#1,468 → #1,708)
Rise & fade · boys
38 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2008 at #1,175 (152 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 13,422
  • Highest: 1 in 13,422 boys born in 2008 were named Ramses (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 31.7% of all boys named Ramses (1,096) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s91#2,791 (1977)#3,557
1980s168#2,536 (1980)#2,969
1990s381#1,733 (1999)#2,199
2000s1,075#1,175 (2008)#1,393
2010s1,096#1,321 (2017)#1,516
2020s649#1,448 (2024)#1,590

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.

Ramses in 1970

boys
#4,230
6 births · 1 in 309,705 boys

Top boys' names in 1970

  1. #1Michael85,266
  2. #2James61,735
  3. #3David61,728
  4. #4John58,491
  5. #5Robert57,177
  6. #6Christopher41,747
  7. #7William38,887
  8. #8Brian31,917
  9. #9Mark31,461
  10. #10Richard30,442
  11. #4,230Ramses6
More about 1970

boys

1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 309,705 of them was named Ramses, which outranked 22.1% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ramses
  1. #3,836Zan7
  2. #3,836Zeferino7
  3. #3,836Zoe7
  4. #4,230Ramses6
  5. #4,230Abbott6
  6. #4,230Abdon6
  7. #4,230Ade6
  8. #4,724Abelino5
  9. #4,724Abimael5
  10. #4,724Adolpho5

Tied with 493 names at #4,230; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,783Jermaine#4,404 → #621
  2. ↑ 1,000Dax#1,861 → #861
  3. ↑ 842Jeramy#1,810 → #968
  4. ↑ 639Branden#1,570 → #931
  5. ↑ 407Braden#1,396 → #989
Fallers
  1. ↓ 593Jemal#549 → #1,142
  2. ↓ 307Karen#885 → #1,192
  3. ↓ 307Merlin#885 → #1,192
  4. ↓ 302Dennie#920 → #1,222
  5. ↓ 276Luciano#931 → #1,207

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970 →