Ramie
Ramie was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 947 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ramie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ramie is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ramie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,890, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1976, the peak
Ramie peaked in 1976, when 46 babies were given it (29 girls, #2,707 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,890 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,774 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,430 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,513 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,630 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,748 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,093 | 5 | #13,582 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,037 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,867 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,779 | 5 | #14,126 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #9,417 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,354 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,742 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,758 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,490 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,879 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,809 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,928 | 9 | #7,256 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,126 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,079 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,189 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,381 | 6 | #8,752 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,355 | 8 | #6,836 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,910 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,308 | 8 | #6,679 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,558 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,332 | 6 | #8,004 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,342 | 6 | #7,879 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,765 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,522 | 8 | #5,604 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,194 | 8 | #5,328 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,676 | 10 | #4,390 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,090 | 6 | #6,334 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,794 | 6 | #6,136 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,372 | 11 | #3,813 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,724 | 7 | #5,474 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,676 | 7 | #5,351 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,162 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,131 | 6 | #5,886 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,880 | 11 | #3,556 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,020 | 12 | #3,335 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,707 | 17 | #2,581 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,730 | 11 | #3,384 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,254 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,295 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,473 | 9 | #3,542 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,878 | 8 | #3,876 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,830 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,116 | 9 | #3,260 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,946 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,325 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,162 | 6 | #3,837 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,139 | 9 | #2,935 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,585 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,374 | 5 | #4,485 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,181 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,292 | 7 | #3,589 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,469 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,689 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,114 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,799 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,090 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,613 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,558 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,858 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,673 | |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,792 | under 5 |
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 Ramie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 947 Americans recorded as Ramie, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ramie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramie, and how old are they?
An estimated 856 Americans named Ramie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 31 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 914 people named Ramie (625 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 862 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 5,386 babies since 1880, Ramie is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Ramie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ramie
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 Ramie and names like it
- Compare Ramie and RamaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRamie peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramie since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Ramie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ramie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.