Ramon vs Ramona
American parents have registered 77,964 Ramons since 1880, against 71,123 Ramonas. But in 2025 it was Ramona that was commoner, 373 babies to 288.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ramon Ramona
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 146 years in which either name was published, Ramona for 75 years and Ramon for 71 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1880–1891 Ramon ahead
- 1892–1919 Ramona ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1924–1927 Ramon ahead
- 1928–1969 Ramona ahead
- 1970–2018 Ramon ahead
- 2019–2025 Ramona ahead
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Ramon | Ramona | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 77,964 | 71,123 |
| Most in one year | 1,168 | 2,251 |
| Babies in 2025 | 288 | 373 |
| Estimated living today | 57,000 | 45,000 |
| Median age today | 40 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1991 | 1928 |
| Best rank | 244th boys | 117th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 850th | 733rd |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 535 / 77,429 | 70,874 / 249 |
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 Ramonas alive today are over 63; half the Ramons are over 40. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Ramon New Mexico (7.0×), Arizona (4.9×), Texas (3.3×)
- Ramona New Mexico (5.3×), South Dakota (2.7×), North Dakota (2.1×)
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 | Ramon | Ramona |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1,608 | 822 |
| France | 1,650 | 480 |
| Italy | 329 | 955 |
| England and Wales | 140 | 399 |
| Belgium | 168 | 21 |
| Scotland | 9 | 25 |
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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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ramon and Ramona.