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Ramey vs Ramiro

American parents have registered 25,958 Ramiros since 1880, against 1,005 Rameys. Ramiro is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ramey against Ramiro, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ramey Ramiro

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ramiro has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1913, when Ramey had 5 and Ramiro had 9.

Side by side

  Ramey Ramiro
Total US births 1,00525,958
Most in one year 51528
Babies in 2025 13201
Estimated living today 90022,000
Median age today 3433
Peak year 19762001
Best rank 1,502nd boys459th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,073rd
First recorded 19131913
Girls / boys 432 / 57328 / 25,930

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ramey Ramiro
England and Wales 373

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ramey and Ramiro.