Ramses
#1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 152 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,460since 1970
Ramses over time
Rank among boys' names. Ramses has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,708 | 95 |
| 2024 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #1,508 | 117 |
| 2022 | #1,652 | 104 |
| 2021 | #1,514 | 117 |
| 2020 | #1,707 | 91 |
| 2019 | #1,523 | 111 |
| 2018 | #1,453 | 120 |
| 2017 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #1,386 | 127 |
| 2015 | #1,468 | 114 |
| 2014 | #1,597 | 98 |
| 2013 | #1,636 | 93 |
| 2012 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #1,533 | 103 |
| 2010 | #1,503 | 108 |
| 2009 | #1,367 | 125 |
| 2008 | #1,175 | 152 |
| 2007 | #1,380 | 119 |
| 2006 | #1,350 | 120 |
| 2005 | #1,216 | 130 |
| 2004 | #1,477 | 92 |
| 2003 | #1,611 | 78 |
| 2002 | #1,414 | 92 |
| 2001 | #1,472 | 83 |
| 2000 | #1,466 | 84 |
| 1999 | #1,733 | 59 |
| 1998 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #1,864 | 46 |
| 1994 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#558 · 1 in 2,966
- California#838 · 1 in 6,530
- Washington#873 · 1 in 5,567
- Florida#1,072 · 1 in 8,433
- Texas#1,116 · 1 in 9,507
Best ever in a state: #444 in Arizona, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #558 | 11 | 1 in 2,966 |
| California | #838 | 29 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Washington | #873 | 6 | 1 in 5,567 |
| Florida | #1,072 | 11 | 1 in 8,433 |
| Texas | #1,116 | 18 | 1 in 9,507 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ramses
- 260 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,708)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,708)
- 240 spots since 2015 (#1,468 → #1,708)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2008 at #1,175 (152 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 31.7% of all boys named Ramses (1,096) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 91 | #2,791 (1977) | #3,557 |
| 1980s | 168 | #2,536 (1980) | #2,969 |
| 1990s | 381 | #1,733 (1999) | #2,199 |
| 2000s | 1,075 | #1,175 (2008) | #1,393 |
| 2010s | 1,096 | #1,321 (2017) | #1,516 |
| 2020s | 649 | #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 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 14,953 of them was named Ramses, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,503Malek118
- #1,503Ranger118
- #1,503Yakov118
- #1,514Ramses117
- #1,514Deion117
- #1,514Devonte117
- #1,514Humberto117
- #1,527Stellan116
- #1,527Yair116
- #1,529Alder115
Tied with 12 names at #1,514; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.