Ramin
Ramin was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,760 among boys’ names; 677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ramin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ramin is “a male given name.”
From Persian رامین (râmin). Doublet of Ramayana.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ramin?
#8,760 among boys’ names, 2025
Ramin rose from #13,581 in 2015 to #8,760 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 5.3 per million.
23 babies in 1987, the peak
Ramin peaked in 1987, when 23 boys were given it, #2,441 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,760 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,020 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,695 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,599 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,460 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,936 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,713 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,478 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,664 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,633 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,581 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,988 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,278 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,918 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,607 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,194 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,152 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,586 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,746 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,710 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,905 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,423 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,166 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,480 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,238 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,258 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,700 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,743 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,106 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,965 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,040 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,928 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,875 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,588 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,124 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,057 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,828 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,441 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,391 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,177 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,345 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,194 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,576 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,393 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,209 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,865 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,355 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,874 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,312 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,193 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,513 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,971 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,543 | 5.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,752 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,849 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,603 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,586 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,475 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,486 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ramin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ramin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramin, and how old are they?
An estimated 644 Americans named Ramin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 16 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,187 people named Ramin (24 women and girls, 2,163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 88,472 babies since 1880, Ramin is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 342 babies (2.6%), again the fourth 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 Ramin
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 Ramin and names like it
- Compare Ramin and RamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRamin peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramin since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Ramin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ramin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.