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Ramiro vs Ramzi

American parents have registered 25,958 Ramiros since 1880, against 863 Ramzis. Ramiro is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ramiro Ramzi

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 2020, when Ramiro had 189 and Ramzi had 26.

Side by side

  Ramiro Ramzi
Total US births 25,958863
Most in one year 52831
Babies in 2025 20114
Estimated living today 22,000840
Median age today 3321
Peak year 20011991
Best rank 459th boys2,469th boys
Rank in 2025 1,073rd6,143rd
First recorded 19131970
Girls / boys 28 / 25,93010 / 853

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 Ramiros alive today are over 33; half the Ramzis are over 21. That is 12 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ramiro Ramzi
France 1451,960
England and Wales 73167

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: Ramiro and Ramzi.