Ramsey
#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births · #1,959 for boys in 2025, 78 births
Given to boys 74.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 109 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,602since 1894
Ramsey 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 | #2,368 | 76 | #1,959 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,533 | 70 | #1,752 | 94 |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 | #1,718 | 97 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 | #1,496 | 121 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 120 | #1,372 | 134 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 | #1,408 | 123 |
| 2019 | #1,850 | 109 | #1,312 | 139 |
| 2018 | #1,787 | 114 | #1,375 | 128 |
| 2017 | #1,842 | 111 | #1,207 | 152 |
| 2016 | #1,799 | 115 | #1,242 | 150 |
| 2015 | #2,259 | 83 | #1,340 | 131 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 | #1,641 | 94 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | #1,405 | 119 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | #1,562 | 101 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #1,516 | 105 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | #1,612 | 97 |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 | #1,618 | 98 |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 | #1,452 | 113 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 | #1,496 | 106 |
| 2006 | #3,469 | 46 | #1,391 | 114 |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 | #1,266 | 123 |
| 2004 | #2,965 | 53 | #1,394 | 102 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | #1,233 | 117 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | #1,244 | 109 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 | #1,415 | 88 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #1,220 | 110 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #1,374 | 86 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 | #1,092 | 118 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 | #976 | 134 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | #1,265 | 87 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #987 | 126 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 | #1,053 | 112 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #1,196 | 88 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #1,105 | 99 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #934 | 129 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 | #1,072 | 98 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #1,082 | 94 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #1,130 | 78 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #884 | 112 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | #958 | 91 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #927 | 96 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #863 | 104 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #924 | 91 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #914 | 96 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #851 | 107 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #847 | 109 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #871 | 100 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #1,040 | 70 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | #933 | 83 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #1,067 | 61 |
| 1975 | — | #1,127 | 56 | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #988 | 69 |
| 1973 | — | #1,068 | 58 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #1,210 | 46 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #1,254 | 44 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #1,142 | 52 |
| 1969 | — | #1,231 | 41 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,026 | 52 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,253 | 36 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,178 | 40 | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #1,483 | 27 |
| 1964 | — | #1,311 | 36 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,513 | 27 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,279 | 13 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,823 | 20 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,552 | 27 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,759 | 21 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,557 | 25 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,791 | 20 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,642 | 23 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,956 | 16 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,551 | 24 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,615 | 22 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,598 | 22 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,872 | 16 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,115 | 13 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,759 | 17 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,074 | 13 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,145 | 12 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,491 | 9 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,802 | 15 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,712 | 16 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,191 | 12 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,408 | 12 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,436 | 12 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,132 | 15 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,020 | 16 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,632 | 11 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,765 | 10 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,398 | 12 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,152 | 13 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,310 | 11 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
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| 1894 | — | #857 | 7 | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1894
The first year at least five boys were named Ramsey! It came in at #857, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1895–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 207 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #1,959)
- 551 spots since 2020 (#1,408 → #1,959)
- 619 spots since 2015 (#1,340 → #1,959)
- Biggest jump: 289 spots in 1997 (#1,265 → #976)
- Biggest drop: 278 spots in 1996 (#987 → #1,265)
Rise & fade · boys
86 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1894
- Peaked 1980 at #847 (109 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1979–1987
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,177
- Highest: 1 in 12,177 boys born in 2017 were named Ramsey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,898 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #847 in 1980, was only 1 in 16,367 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 18.4% of all boys named Ramsey (1,216) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 7 | #857 (1894) | #857 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 84 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,301 |
| 1920s | 122 | #2,020 (1923) | #2,437 |
| 1930s | 101 | #1,712 (1939) | #2,513 |
| 1940s | 127 | #1,759 (1946) | #2,148 |
| 1950s | 205 | #1,551 (1953) | #1,731 |
| 1960s | 319 | #1,026 (1968) | #1,465 |
| 1970s | 639 | #871 (1979) | #1,070 |
| 1980s | 978 | #847 (1980) | #938 |
| 1990s | 1,077 | #934 (1991) | #1,105 |
| 2000s | 1,080 | #1,220 (2000) | #1,373 |
| 2010s | 1,216 | #1,207 (2017) | #1,421 |
| 2020s | 647 | #1,372 (2021) | #1,618 |
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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