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Ramie vs Ramiro

American parents have registered 25,958 Ramiros since 1880, against 947 Ramies. Ramiro is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ramie 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

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Ramiro for 113 years and Ramie for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ramie Ramiro
Total US births 94725,958
Most in one year 46528
Babies in 2025 under 5201
Estimated living today 86022,000
Median age today 4233
Peak year 19762001
Best rank 2,664th girls459th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,073rd
First recorded 19111913
Girls / boys 690 / 25728 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ramies alive today are over 42; half the Ramiros are over 33. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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