Ramel
Ramel was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,557 among boys’ names; 1,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Ramel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ramel?
#7,557 among boys’ names, 2025
Ramel fell from #5,674 in 2015 to #7,557 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 6.4 per million.
54 babies in 1985, the peak
Ramel peaked in 1985, when 54 boys were given it, #1,313 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,557 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,161 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,150 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,577 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,672 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,818 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,030 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,059 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,718 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,737 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,674 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,428 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,031 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,352 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,323 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,337 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,893 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,326 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,219 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,918 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,909 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,346 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,383 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,804 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,482 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,503 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,458 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,260 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,219 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,320 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,601 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,958 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,277 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,990 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,036 | 18.3 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,743 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,881 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,694 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,380 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,579 | 22.8 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,313 | 29.2 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,390 | 26.0 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,418 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,435 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,570 | 21.8 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,516 | 23.0 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,660 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,712 | 19.5 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,993 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,221 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,931 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,102 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,479 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,098 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,785 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,231 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,869 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,182 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ramel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ramel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramel, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,561 Americans ever recorded as Ramel. The median Ramel alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,200 people named Ramel (55 women and girls, 1,145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 609 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 442 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 211 |
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).
Where are babies named Ramel born?
The states with the most babies named Ramel are New York, Virginia and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 697 | not ranked | 6.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ramel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ramel is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 6.6 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 Ramel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,243 babies since 1880, Ramel is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 39 babies (28%), the second 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 Ramel
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 Ramel and names like it
- Compare Ramel and RahmelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRamel peaked in 1985.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramel since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Ramel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ramel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.