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Rami vs Ramonita

American parents have registered 4,122 Ramis since 1880, against 522 Ramonitas. Rami is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rami against Ramonita, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rami Ramonita

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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Rami for 53 years and Ramonita for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rami Ramonita
Total US births 4,122522
Most in one year 19528
Babies in 2025 195under 5
Estimated living today 4,000460
Median age today 1858
Peak year 20251958
Best rank 1,097th boys2,117th girls
Rank in 2025 1,097thunranked
First recorded 19631932
Girls / boys 236 / 3,886522 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ramonitas alive today are over 58; half the Ramis are over 18. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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