Ramey
Ramey is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,884 among girls’ names and #11,684 among boys’, #14,128 among all names counting both); 1,005 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ramey?
#11,684 among boys’ names, 2025
Ramey fell from #10,370 in 2015 to #11,684 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 3.5 per million.
51 babies in 1975, the peak
Ramey peaked in 1975, when 51 babies were given it (34 boys, #1,554 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,884 | 6 | #11,684 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,133 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,153 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,274 | 8 | #9,637 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,826 | 6 | #11,672 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,991 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,234 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,535 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,675 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,747 | 7 | #10,370 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,236 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,063 | 8 | #9,456 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,648 | 6 | #11,925 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,502 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,188 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,866 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,945 | 12 | #7,090 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,113 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,326 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,072 | 10 | #7,520 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,410 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,307 | 10 | #7,113 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,964 | 9 | #7,479 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,609 | 10 | #6,808 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,421 | 7 | #8,917 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,657 | 11 | #5,950 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,421 | 8 | #7,374 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,188 | 7 | #7,921 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,380 | 9 | #6,369 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,969 | 9 | #6,290 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,009 | 7 | #7,563 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,462 | 8 | #6,678 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,379 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,285 | 5 | #9,276 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,182 | 8 | #6,271 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,935 | 10 | #5,079 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,603 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 10 | #4,498 | |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,982 | 12 | #3,821 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,111 | 8 | #5,042 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,876 | 6 | #6,135 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,044 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,313 | 6 | #6,211 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,665 | 8 | #4,851 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,655 | 11 | #3,789 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,720 | 15 | #2,988 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,859 | 14 | #3,036 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,135 | 27 | #1,895 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,888 | 36 | #1,530 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,896 | 34 | #1,554 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,801 | 10 | #3,512 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,165 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,846 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,786 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,860 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,259 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #3,048 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,412 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,836 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,936 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,574 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,239 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,271 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 8 | #3,229 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 10 | #2,753 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,266 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,706 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,650 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,083 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 10 | #2,572 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,069 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,859 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,476 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,704 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,662 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,066 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,801 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,169 |
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 Ramey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,005 Americans recorded as Ramey, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ramey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramey, and how old are they?
An estimated 897 Americans named Ramey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 923 people named Ramey (446 women and girls, 477 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Ramey?
Ramey is a less common spelling of Rami: SSA has recorded 1,005 Ramey and 4,122 Rami since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,258 babies since 1880, Ramey is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 260 babies (5.0%), again the third 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 Ramey
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 Ramey and names like it
- Compare Ramey and RamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRamey peaked in 1975.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramey since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Ramey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ramey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.