Ramy
Ramy was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,563 among boys’ names; 1,131 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Ramy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 9 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ramy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ramy is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic رَامِي (rāmī).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ramy?
#2,563 among boys’ names, 2025
Ramy rose from #5,230 in 2015 to #2,563 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 30.4 per million.
52 babies in 2025, the peak
Ramy peaked in 2025, when 52 boys were given it, #2,563 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 43 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,563 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,946 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,989 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,516 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,473 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,112 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,602 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,060 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,465 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,634 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,230 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,228 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,119 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,098 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,673 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,989 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,260 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,016 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,161 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,067 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,152 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,095 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,342 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,067 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,693 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,971 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,291 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,364 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,694 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,519 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,071 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,709 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,631 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,343 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,662 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,412 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,968 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,289 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,803 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,581 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,344 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,402 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,571 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,796 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,553 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,790 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,866 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,789 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,781 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,428 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,194 | 7.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,402 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ramy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ramy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramy, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,131 Americans ever recorded as Ramy. The median Ramy alive today is 22 years old; half are between 9 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,856 people named Ramy (113 women and girls, 1,743 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 888 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 365 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 356 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ramy born?
The states with the most babies named Ramy are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,873 | 0.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,162 | 0.7× |
| New York | 6 | #1,708 | 1.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ramy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,258 babies since 1880, Ramy is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 260 babies (20%), again the second 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 Ramy
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 Ramy and names like it
- Compare Ramy and RamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRamy peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramy since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ramy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ramy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ramy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.