Ramiah
Ramiah was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,767 among girls’ names; 564 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ramiah?
#6,767 among girls’ names, 2025
Ramiah fell from #5,986 in 2015 to #6,767 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 10.6 per million.
32 babies in 2004, the peak
Ramiah peaked in 2004, when 32 girls were given it, #4,357 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,767 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,868 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,606 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,527 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,954 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,866 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,602 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,033 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,487 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,361 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,986 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,752 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,198 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,216 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,503 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,930 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,059 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,734 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,660 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,772 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,073 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,357 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,199 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,342 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,920 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,529 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,094 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,078 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,264 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,934 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 564 Americans recorded as Ramiah, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 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 Ramiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 558 Americans named Ramiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 477 people named Ramiah (400 women and girls, 77 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 473 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,174 babies since 1880, Ramiah is the fifth most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 120 babies (14%), the fourth 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 Ramiah
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 Ramiah and names like it
- Compare Ramiah and RamaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRamiah peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Ramiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ramiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.