Ramla — #9873 US girls' name
264 babies named Ramla in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 44% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Ramla was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Ramla in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ramla
The Social Security Administration has registered 264 babies named Ramla between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ramla currently holds the #9873 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ramla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ramla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ramla in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ramla 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 264 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.
Ramla at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Ramla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2015)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #9873 among girls.
264 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 15 births in a single year.
Ramla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 109 births that decade — 41% of Ramla's all-time total
Ramla decade highlights
- Peak decade 109 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ramla's strongest decade
109 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Ramla by state
Where Ramla concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Minnesota | | 40 | 15.2% |
40 of 264 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Minnesota 15.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Minnesota accounts for 15.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.