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Ramsey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #849 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #849 in 1980; #1,970 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Ramsey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,970 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #849.
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Ramsey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 boys in 2025. Peak: #849 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 152 (2017).
In 2025, 78 US boys were named Ramsey, making it the 1,970th most common boys’ name of the year, down 207 places from #1,763 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 94 boys named Ramsey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #849, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 152, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,345 in 2015 and #2,008 in 1950.
In 2025, 76 US girls were named Ramsey, making it the 2,377th most common girls’ name of the year, up 174 places from #2,551 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 70 girls named Ramsey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,728, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 120. For comparison, it was #2,274 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ramsey in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 7 babies. In all, 8,861 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,012 babies named Ramsey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,216 US boys were named Ramsey; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,898 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ramsey ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #907 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ramzy, Ramzey and Ramsie are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ramzy (410), Ramzey (167), Ramsie (128), Ramsi (48), Ramzee (17), Ramsy (5), Ramsee (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 Ramsey 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #907 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,325 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,339 | #1,620 |
| California | 8 | #1,949 | #1,308 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,377 | 78 | #1,970 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,551 | 94 | #1,763 |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,104 | 97 | #1,724 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,630 | 121 | #1,502 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,728 | 134 | #1,376 |
| 2020 | 94 | #2,000 | 123 | #1,411 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,859 | 139 | #1,319 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,796 | 128 | #1,383 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,851 | 152 | #1,211 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,809 | 150 | #1,244 |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,274 | 131 | #1,345 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,882 | 94 | #1,651 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,306 | 119 | #1,410 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,082 | 101 | #1,572 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,214 | 105 | #1,521 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,401 | 97 | #1,623 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,854 | 98 | #1,625 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,635 | 113 | #1,462 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,709 | 106 | #1,504 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,493 | 114 | #1,400 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,375 | 123 | #1,270 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,990 | 102 | #1,403 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,643 | 117 | #1,246 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,580 | 109 | #1,252 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,187 | 88 | #1,422 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,265 | 110 | #1,227 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,057 | 86 | #1,381 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,058 | 118 | #1,095 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,651 | 134 | #977 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,027 | 87 | #1,274 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,172 | 126 | #993 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,871 | 112 | #1,058 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,753 | 88 | #1,202 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,659 | 99 | #1,109 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,596 | 129 | #935 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,820 | 98 | #1,081 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,069 | 94 | #1,089 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,817 | 78 | #1,141 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,659 | 112 | #888 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,525 | 91 | #964 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,239 | 96 | #933 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,124 | 104 | #865 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,844 | 91 | #928 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,452 | 96 | #916 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,171 | 107 | #856 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,936 | 109 | #849 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,835 | 100 | #874 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,272 | 70 | #1,048 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,857 | 83 | #935 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,920 | 61 | #1,082 |
| 1975 | — | — | 56 | #1,136 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,699 | 69 | #992 |
| 1973 | — | — | 58 | #1,072 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,979 | 46 | #1,224 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,064 | 44 | #1,269 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,751 | 52 | #1,152 |
| 1969 | — | — | 41 | #1,247 |
| 1968 | — | — | 52 | #1,033 |
| 1967 | — | — | 36 | #1,271 |
| 1966 | — | — | 40 | #1,189 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,274 | 27 | #1,507 |
| 1964 | — | — | 36 | #1,324 |
| 1963 | — | — | 27 | #1,538 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,340 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,863 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,571 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,790 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,582 |
| 1957 | — | — | 20 | #1,826 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,672 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,958 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #2,029 |
| 1953 | — | — | 24 | #1,579 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,652 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,635 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #2,008 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,924 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,194 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,898 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,799 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,939 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,813 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,161 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,236 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,612 |
| 1940 | — | — | 15 | #1,877 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,777 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,292 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,630 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,416 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,501 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,591 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,981 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,290 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,671 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,522 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,721 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1927 | — | — | 12 | #2,494 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,532 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,297 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,202 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,102 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,455 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,761 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,922 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,675 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,506 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,169 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,237 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,423 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,596 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,452 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,222 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,791 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #933 |
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).