Rama
Rama is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,695 among girls’ names and #7,556 among boys’, #10,881 among all names counting both); 1,406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Rama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rama mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rama is “a female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit राम (rāma).
(Oumuamua): The nickname derives from the similarity of Oumuamua to the fictional object “Rama” in the story Rendezvous with Rama, where that fictional object is named for the god.
/ˈɹɑmə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rama?
#11,695 among girls’ names, 2025
Rama fell from #6,196 in 2015 to #11,695 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 5.0 per million.
44 babies in 2010, the peak
Rama peaked in 2010, when 44 babies were given it (36 girls, #4,165 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,695 | 11 | #7,556 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,344 | 5 | #13,770 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,465 | 12 | #7,193 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,039 | 12 | #7,142 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,865 | 8 | #9,487 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,987 | 7 | #10,343 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,265 | 11 | #7,508 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,676 | 9 | #8,665 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,788 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,141 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,196 | 9 | #8,563 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,649 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,403 | 6 | #11,819 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,275 | 8 | #9,496 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,334 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,165 | 8 | #9,469 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,753 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,021 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,659 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,081 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,344 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,706 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,987 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,584 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,552 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,753 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,275 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,998 | 10 | #6,184 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,568 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,465 | 6 | #8,751 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,456 | 5 | #9,963 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,406 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,323 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,932 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,686 | 6 | #8,001 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,165 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,676 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,218 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,598 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,875 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,535 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,116 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,350 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,932 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,882 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,303 | 12 | #3,353 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,779 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 13 | #3,054 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,741 | 10 | #3,605 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,798 | 16 | #2,530 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 10 | #3,392 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,234 | 10 | #3,288 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,252 | 9 | #3,590 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,748 | 10 | #3,230 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,842 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,885 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,592 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,378 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,675 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,584 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,712 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,386 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,575 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,978 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,259 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,204 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,304 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,980 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,160 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,732 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,443 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,018 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,567 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,396 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,191 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,918 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,333 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,594 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,533 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,156 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,497 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,700 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,355 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,699 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,103 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,730 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,887 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,268 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,653 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,954 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,012 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,702 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,595 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,696 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,496 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,350 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,358 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,981 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,301 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,738 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,716 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,988 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,748 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,406 Americans recorded as Rama, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rama, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,406 Americans ever recorded as Rama. The median Rama alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 4,175 people named Rama (2,916 women and girls, 1,259 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,093 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 53 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 164 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 116 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 412 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,427 babies since 1880, Rama is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 163 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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.
More about Rama and names like it
- Compare Rama and RahmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRama peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rama since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Rama: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Rama.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rama alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.