Rami
Rami was given to 195 boys in 2025, #1,106 among boys’ names; 4,122 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Rami and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 7 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rami by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rami mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rami is “a male given name from Arabic, Albanian, or Finnish.”
Borrowed from Arabic رَامِي (rāmī), masculine singular construct form of رَامٍ (rāmin). This surname is predominantly found in Morocco and India.
/ɹɑː.mi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rami?
#1,106 among boys’ names, 2025
Rami rose from #2,344 in 2015 to #1,106 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.11 per 1,000.
195 babies in 2025, the peak
Rami peaked in 2025, when 195 boys were given it, #1,106 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 168 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 168 | #1,210 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,212 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,208 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,222 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,410 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,655 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 85 | #1,800 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 77 | #1,916 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,344 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 78 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,133 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 87 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 82 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 85 | #1,764 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 80 | #1,847 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 97 | #1,617 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,063 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 84 | #1,695 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,823 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 89 | #1,473 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,320 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,407 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 71 | #1,647 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 72 | #1,550 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,692 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,492 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,492 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,370 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 69 | #1,412 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 58 | #1,566 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,286 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 38 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,905 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,393 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,591 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,484 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rami a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,122 Americans recorded as Rami, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 195 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Rami: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rami, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,122 Americans ever recorded as Rami. The median Rami alive today is 19 years old; half are between 7 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 5,690 people named Rami (340 women and girls, 5,350 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,097 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rami rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 238 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 884 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,570 |
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 Rami born?
The states with the most babies named Rami are California, New York and Michigan, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #773 | 1.2× |
| New York | 25 | #615 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 13 | #632 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,538 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 10 | #857 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,329 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 8 | #994 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 8 | #857 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,006 | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #767 | 0.7× |
Where Rami is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rami is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1963 it was given 1.7 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 Rami 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,258 babies since 1880, Rami is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 195 of their 260 babies (75%), again the 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 Rami
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 Rami and names like it
- Compare Rami and RamyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRami peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rami since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rami: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rami.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rami alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.