Ram
Ram was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,671 among boys’ names; 1,123 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Ram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ram mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ram is “a male given name.”
From Hebrew רָם (ram).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ram?
#2,671 among boys’ names, 2025
Ram rose from #3,660 in 2015 to #2,671 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 28.7 per million.
69 babies in 2024, the peak
Ram peaked in 2024, when 69 boys were given it, #2,153 among boys’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #2,671 | 28.7 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,153 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,929 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,582 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,343 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,630 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,968 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,350 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,829 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,874 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,660 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,971 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,937 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,431 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,888 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,481 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,010 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,713 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,160 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,663 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,592 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,968 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,760 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,449 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,629 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,208 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,113 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,387 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,193 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,974 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,042 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,227 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,269 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,161 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,824 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,983 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,078 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,848 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,327 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,779 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,332 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,467 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,816 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,892 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,080 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,414 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,233 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,462 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,988 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,215 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,869 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,518 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,944 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,540 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,281 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,751 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ram, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,123 Americans ever recorded as Ram. The median Ram alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,850 people named Ram (416 women and girls, 5,434 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 834 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ram rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 80 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 338 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 529 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,322 babies since 1880, Ram is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 144 babies (34%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ram
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 Ram and names like it
- Compare Ram and RahimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRam peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ram since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ram.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ram alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.