Ramsey — #1748 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ramsey

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,524 babies named Ramsey between 1894 and 2024, spanning 131 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ramsey currently holds the #1748 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 152 babies received it in a single year. Ramsey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,183 additional births since 1965.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ramsey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Ramsey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 709 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ramsey in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ramsey 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 6,524 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.