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Ramiro vs Ramonita

American parents have registered 25,958 Ramiros since 1880, against 522 Ramonitas. Ramiro is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ramiro 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

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 1958, when Ramiro had 214 and Ramonita had 28.

Side by side

  Ramiro Ramonita
Total US births 25,958522
Most in one year 52828
Babies in 2025 201under 5
Estimated living today 22,000460
Median age today 3358
Peak year 20011958
Best rank 459th boys2,117th girls
Rank in 2025 1,073rdunranked
First recorded 19131932
Girls / boys 28 / 25,930522 / 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 Ramiros are over 33. That is 25 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: Ramiro and Ramonita.