Ramey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ramey

The Social Security Administration has registered 567 babies named Ramey between 1913 and 2022, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ramey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Ramey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 425 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ramey performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ramey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ramey in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ramey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 567 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.