Ramya
Ramya was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,064 among girls’ names; 1,214 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Ramya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ramya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ramya?
#6,064 among girls’ names, 2025
Ramya fell from #4,693 in 2015 to #6,064 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 12.4 per million.
71 babies in 2008, the peak
Ramya peaked in 2008, when 71 girls were given it, #2,623 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,064 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,407 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,467 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,528 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,555 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,862 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,501 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,642 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,488 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,095 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,693 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,983 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,560 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,857 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,648 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,149 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,036 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,623 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,705 | 35.4 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,694 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,747 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,637 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,542 | 35.0 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,047 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,962 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,927 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,358 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,464 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,355 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,299 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,934 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,566 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,325 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,395 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,002 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,343 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,546 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,193 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,889 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,018 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,035 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ramya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ramya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ramya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ramya, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,214 Americans ever recorded as Ramya. The median Ramya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,682 people named Ramya (3,661 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 112 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 787 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 302 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,227 babies since 1880, Ramya is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 180 babies (11%), again the third 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 Ramya
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 Ramya and names like it
- Compare Ramya and RahmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRamya peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ramya since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ramya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ramya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.