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Ramond vs Ramses

American parents have registered 3,460 Ramseses since 1880, against 1,813 Ramonds. Ramses is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ramond against Ramses, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ramond Ramses

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 118 years in which either name was published, Ramond for 80 years and Ramses for 38 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ramond Ramses
Total US births 1,8133,460
Most in one year 30152
Babies in 2025 under 595
Estimated living today 1,1003,400
Median age today 4515
Peak year 19802008
Best rank 1,852nd boys1,175th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,708th
First recorded 19011970
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8130 / 3,460

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 Ramonds alive today are over 45; half the Ramseses are over 15. That is 30 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 Ramond Ramses
France 3575

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: Ramond and Ramses.