Radames
Radames was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 819 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Radames by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Radames?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,534, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1971, the peak
Radames peaked in 1971, when 30 boys were given it, #1,626 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #10,534 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,659 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,750 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,566 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,491 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,390 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,621 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,703 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,878 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,015 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | #8,433 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,050 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,801 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,011 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,389 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,734 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,112 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,755 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,035 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,856 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,607 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,872 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,086 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,601 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,963 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,099 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,168 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,818 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,038 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,506 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,477 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,795 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,365 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,062 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,534 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,034 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,894 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,156 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,424 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,875 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,020 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,756 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,626 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,104 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,199 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,635 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,743 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,110 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,729 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,179 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,094 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,552 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,311 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,020 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,176 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,606 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,352 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,919 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,429 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,695 | 4.9 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,134 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,632 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,079 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Radames a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Radames has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Radames: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Radames, and how old are they?
An estimated 727 Americans named Radames and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 34 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,379 people named Radames (4 women and girls, 1,375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Radames born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 333 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| New Jersey | 13 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Radames is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Radames is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Radames with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Radames
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Radames and names like it
- Compare Radames and LydellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRadames peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Radames since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Radames.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Radames alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.