Ramah
Ramah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,064 among girls’ names; 294 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ramah?
#7,064 among girls’ names, 2025
Ramah entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,064 in 2025.
16 babies in 2025, the peak
Ramah peaked in 2025, when 16 girls were given it, #7,064 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,064 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,833 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,466 | 6.9 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,187 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,777 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,119 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,958 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,260 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,262 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,033 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #10,799 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,799 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,216 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,121 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,539 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,672 | 3.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,212 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,520 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,636 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,888 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,771 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,371 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,639 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,767 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,842 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,447 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,703 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,105 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,804 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,842 | 10.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,932 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,597 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,358 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,857 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,702 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,197 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,304 | 8.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,791 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 294 Americans recorded as Ramah, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ramah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramah, and how old are they?
An estimated 146 Americans named Ramah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 3 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Ramah (241 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
How common is the spelling Ramah?
Ramah is a less common spelling of Rahma: SSA has recorded 294 Ramah and 1,532 Rahma since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,097 babies since 1880, Ramah is the eighth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 187 babies (8.6%), the sixth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ramah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Ellouise | 1,029 |
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 Ramah and names like it
- Compare Ramah and RahmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRamah peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ramah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ramah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.