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Ramona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 373 in 2025. Its best rank was #117 in 1928.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #117 in 1928; #733 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ramona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#733 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1928, at #117.
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Ramona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 373 girls in 2025. Peak: #117 in 1928 · most girls in one year: 2,239 (1928).
In 2025, 373 US girls were named Ramona, making it the 733rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 38 places from #771 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 366 girls named Ramona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #117, reached in 1928. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,239. For comparison, it was #1,072 in 2015 and #235 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ramona in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 71,123 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 14,687 babies named Ramona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,398 US girls were named Ramona; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 373. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,309 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ramona ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #211 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Raymona, Ramina and Raemona are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mona.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Latvian, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raymona (438), Ramina (76), Raemona (5), Ramana (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 8 | #211 | — |
| Oregon | 11 | #348 | #782 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #386 | — |
| Washington | 18 | #404 | #917 |
| Arizona | 17 | #414 | #1,218 |
| Missouri | 13 | #473 | #1,096 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #497 | #745 |
| Colorado | 11 | #529 | #750 |
| Nevada | 5 | #587 | — |
| Virginia | 13 | #599 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #616 | #907 |
| California | 48 | #657 | #931 |
| Iowa | 5 | #659 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #669 | #606 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #717 | #780 |
| Ohio | 12 | #783 | #1,047 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #810 | — |
| New York | 20 | #822 | #749 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #916 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #940 | #620 |
| Maryland | 5 | #964 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #980 | #811 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,008 | #756 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,029 | #1,900 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,180 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,226 | #1,796 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,403 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 373 | #733 | — | — |
| 2024 | 366 | #771 | — | — |
| 2023 | 356 | #794 | — | — |
| 2022 | 361 | #787 | — | — |
| 2021 | 356 | #796 | — | — |
| 2020 | 337 | #804 | — | — |
| 2019 | 335 | #817 | — | — |
| 2018 | 323 | #841 | — | — |
| 2017 | 303 | #893 | — | — |
| 2016 | 288 | #952 | — | — |
| 2015 | 246 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2013 | 199 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2011 | 175 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2000 | 78 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1994 | 124 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1992 | 153 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1990 | 138 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1989 | 163 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1988 | 201 | #879 | — | — |
| 1987 | 210 | #835 | 6 | #6,758 |
| 1986 | 189 | #878 | — | — |
| 1985 | 215 | #782 | 5 | #7,339 |
| 1984 | 199 | #801 | — | — |
| 1983 | 267 | #645 | 5 | #7,050 |
| 1982 | 284 | #635 | — | — |
| 1981 | 306 | #604 | — | — |
| 1980 | 317 | #580 | — | — |
| 1979 | 393 | #505 | — | — |
| 1978 | 387 | #500 | — | — |
| 1977 | 519 | #400 | — | — |
| 1976 | 437 | #445 | 8 | #4,315 |
| 1975 | 509 | #401 | 5 | #6,111 |
| 1974 | 519 | #393 | 6 | #5,096 |
| 1973 | 598 | #355 | 7 | #4,402 |
| 1972 | 687 | #334 | — | — |
| 1971 | 821 | #322 | — | — |
| 1970 | 914 | #310 | 5 | #5,269 |
| 1969 | 968 | #289 | 7 | #3,851 |
| 1968 | 1,040 | #259 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,016 | #266 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,146 | #248 | 5 | #4,397 |
| 1965 | 1,269 | #243 | 12 | #2,441 |
| 1964 | 1,348 | #237 | 8 | #3,225 |
| 1963 | 1,434 | #230 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,520 | #217 | 7 | #3,556 |
| 1961 | 1,630 | #212 | 9 | #3,050 |
| 1960 | 1,555 | #214 | 6 | #3,964 |
| 1959 | 1,647 | #205 | 9 | #2,988 |
| 1958 | 1,553 | #209 | 5 | #4,371 |
| 1957 | 1,717 | #202 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,643 | #199 | 5 | #4,341 |
| 1955 | 1,646 | #196 | 8 | #3,150 |
| 1954 | 1,610 | #195 | 5 | #4,245 |
| 1953 | 1,455 | #205 | 5 | #4,228 |
| 1952 | 1,228 | #224 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,115 | #230 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,036 | #235 | — | — |
| 1949 | 877 | #256 | — | — |
| 1948 | 831 | #269 | — | — |
| 1947 | 869 | #251 | 5 | #4,149 |
| 1946 | 723 | #269 | — | — |
| 1945 | 650 | #267 | 6 | #3,242 |
| 1944 | 676 | #266 | — | — |
| 1943 | 795 | #240 | — | — |
| 1942 | 756 | #248 | — | — |
| 1941 | 786 | #221 | 7 | #3,078 |
| 1940 | 840 | #210 | — | — |
| 1939 | 886 | #200 | — | — |
| 1938 | 1,001 | #190 | 7 | #3,105 |
| 1937 | 1,018 | #188 | 5 | #3,906 |
| 1936 | 859 | #197 | 10 | #2,415 |
| 1935 | 885 | #197 | 6 | #3,570 |
| 1934 | 929 | #193 | — | — |
| 1933 | 952 | #180 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1,048 | #180 | 7 | #3,301 |
| 1931 | 1,130 | #164 | 12 | #2,302 |
| 1930 | 1,410 | #149 | 5 | #4,438 |
| 1929 | 2,036 | #120 | 14 | #2,173 |
| 1928 | 2,239 | #117 | 12 | #2,498 |
| 1927 | 566 | #277 | — | — |
| 1926 | 466 | #309 | — | — |
| 1925 | 450 | #313 | 10 | #2,895 |
| 1924 | 429 | #324 | — | — |
| 1923 | 390 | #330 | — | — |
| 1922 | 339 | #358 | — | — |
| 1921 | 391 | #335 | — | — |
| 1920 | 374 | #339 | — | — |
| 1919 | 344 | #346 | — | — |
| 1918 | 358 | #345 | — | — |
| 1917 | 296 | #366 | — | — |
| 1916 | 278 | #374 | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1915 | 231 | #396 | — | — |
| 1914 | 207 | #369 | — | — |
| 1913 | 196 | #349 | — | — |
| 1912 | 132 | #403 | — | — |
| 1911 | 81 | #458 | — | — |
| 1910 | 84 | #436 | — | — |
| 1909 | 53 | #519 | — | — |
| 1908 | 70 | #433 | — | — |
| 1907 | 71 | #426 | — | — |
| 1906 | 65 | #426 | — | — |
| 1905 | 53 | #472 | — | — |
| 1904 | 45 | #492 | — | — |
| 1903 | 35 | #554 | — | — |
| 1902 | 44 | #475 | — | — |
| 1901 | 26 | #624 | — | — |
| 1900 | 29 | #673 | — | — |
| 1899 | 40 | #466 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #570 | — | — |
| 1897 | 24 | #641 | — | — |
| 1896 | 27 | #608 | — | — |
| 1895 | 29 | #561 | — | — |
| 1894 | 18 | #716 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #684 | — | — |
| 1892 | 19 | #680 | — | — |
| 1891 | 11 | #878 | — | — |
| 1890 | 12 | #817 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #786 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #841 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #807 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #884 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #732 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).