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Ramsay

Ramsay was most popular in 2017, when 16 boys got the name. In 2025 it ranked number 10,436 for boys. It is also a girl's name, most popular for girls in 2017.

463babies since 1880
2017most popular year
#3,248best rank, 1948
#10,436rank in 2025

Babies named Ramsay each year in the US

Girls Boys

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See the numbers by decade
DecadeGirlsBoys
1920s011
1930s05
1940s012
1950s011
1960s016
1970s011
1980s654
1990s1249
2000s570
2010s3092
2020s2257

Ramsay in other countries

Out of every 10,000 boys born each year, how many were named Ramsay.

US England and Wales Scotland

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CountryTop yearAt peak2025 rank
US 2017 1 in 115,685 #10,436
England and Wales 1929 1 in 10,676 n/a
Scotland 2005 1 in 1,728 #393

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Where the counts come from: the US from Social Security card records from 1880 (names given to at least 5 babies in a year; years before about 1937 count fewer people, because the cards started then), and before 1880 from Douglas Galbi's tables of a census sample. England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics from 1996, and before that from Stephen Bush's study of local birth records, a sample of about 120,000 births a year (CC BY 4.0). Scotland from National Records of Scotland. Northern Ireland from NISRA. France from INSEE, first names and last names. Italy from ISTAT (CC BY 4.0), the top 50 names a year. Berlin from the city's open data (CC BY 3.0 DE), counting only the first of a child's names. UK figures are Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. US last names from the 2020 census, and before 1850 from the 1790 census. Irish last names from Robert Matheson's report on the births of 1890. Italian last names from the City of Florence (CC BY 4.0). Norwegian last names from Statistics Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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