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Ram

#2,671 in 2025Boys' name

High, important, through רָם

Ram has been given to 1,123 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,671 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Ram, 2025

1 in 67,700

Ram over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ram: meaning, origin, and history

High, important, through רָם

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ram means

Ram belongs to the name family reached through Ram → רָם. Its meaning is “high, important”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ram is used in English.

Ram comes through Hebrew רָם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include רָם.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,123 boys were recorded with the name Ram between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,153 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,630 in 2020 to #2,671 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,660 in 2015 to #2,671 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ram?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,671
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ram sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ram was born before 2012 — so the typical Ram is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,123
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Ram rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−518
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+959
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+989
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.0%
Peak was 2024 (69)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,153
2024

Where Ram is used

Across 1910–2025, Ram was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 370,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ram has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ram around the world

Where Ram ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2015
    #6,190
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ram by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,671
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 959
Best rank ever
#2,153
2024
Peak year
2024
69 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,123
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Ram

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ram

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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