Meaning not yet researched.
Ramses: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 95 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,177 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,177 in 2008; #1,721 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ramses in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,721 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,177.
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Ramses: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 95 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,177 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 152 (2008).
In 2025, 95 US boys were named Ramses, making it the 1,721st most common boys’ name of the year, down 266 places from #1,455 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 125 boys named Ramses in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,177, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 152. For comparison, it was #1,471 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ramses in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 3,460 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,096 babies named Ramses.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,143 US boys were named Ramses; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 136. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,980 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ramses ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #664 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ramesses, Ramesh and Ramces are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ramesses (214), Ramesh (185), Ramces (104), Ramsses (36), Ramzes (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.
No nicknames listed for Ramses in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 10 | #664 | #587 |
| Texas | 27 | #928 | #1,029 |
| Washington | 6 | #972 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,286 | #760 |
| New York | 5 | #1,982 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,032 | #1,488 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 95 | #1,721 |
| 2024 | — | — | 125 | #1,455 |
| 2023 | — | — | 117 | #1,514 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,663 |
| 2021 | — | — | 117 | #1,525 |
| 2020 | — | — | 91 | #1,713 |
| 2019 | — | — | 111 | #1,529 |
| 2018 | — | — | 120 | #1,457 |
| 2017 | — | — | 136 | #1,330 |
| 2016 | — | — | 127 | #1,388 |
| 2015 | — | — | 114 | #1,471 |
| 2014 | — | — | 98 | #1,605 |
| 2013 | — | — | 93 | #1,642 |
| 2012 | — | — | 86 | #1,753 |
| 2011 | — | — | 103 | #1,539 |
| 2010 | — | — | 108 | #1,512 |
| 2009 | — | — | 125 | #1,375 |
| 2008 | — | — | 152 | #1,177 |
| 2007 | — | — | 119 | #1,384 |
| 2006 | — | — | 120 | #1,357 |
| 2005 | — | — | 130 | #1,221 |
| 2004 | — | — | 92 | #1,481 |
| 2003 | — | — | 78 | #1,628 |
| 2002 | — | — | 92 | #1,420 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,479 |
| 2000 | — | — | 84 | #1,475 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,744 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,061 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,054 |
| 1996 | — | — | 33 | #2,419 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,881 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,548 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,852 |
| 1992 | — | — | 32 | #2,347 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,283 |
| 1990 | — | — | 34 | #2,155 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,760 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,181 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,699 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,862 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,604 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,235 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,763 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,440 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,654 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,598 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,516 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,184 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,876 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,655 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,609 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,082 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,699 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,883 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,607 |
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).