Rameses

Boys' name

Variant of Ramesses

Rameses has been given to 198 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Rameses, 2022

1 in 564,000

Rameses over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rameses: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ramesses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rameses means

Rameses is a variant of Ramesses.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rameses is used in Ancient Egyptian (Anglicized).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹæm.ə.ˌsiz/, /ɹæ.ˈmɛs.iz/, /ˈɹæm.ˌsiz/ and /ˈɹæm.ˌziz/ for Rameses.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rameses → Ramesses. The family’s meaning is “he is born of Ra”, recorded in the naming reference for Ramesses.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ramesses.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 198 boys were recorded with the name Rameses between 1975 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,246 in 1999.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Rameses?

Rameses had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 564,000; 6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 291,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,139 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rameses 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rameses. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramesess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rameses was born before 2005 — so the typical Rameses is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 198; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Rameses 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1999 (13)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,246; 1999

Spellings of Rameses

Rameses is not the most common spelling — Ramsey is, with 64.3% against Rameses's 1.9%.

Ramsey64.3%6,602
Ramses33.7%3,460
Rameses1.9%198

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rameses is used

Across 1910–2025, Rameses was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,790,560 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Rameses has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rameses by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,246; 1999
Peak year: 1999; 13 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 198
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rameses

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

Ramesses Ramsses Ramses Ramadan Ramari Ramelo Ramiel Manases Ramsay Ramier Ramere Ramello Ramell Eulises Rambo Ramaj Ramondo Ramesh Ramzey Ramzy Ramona Rameir Ramonte Ramirez

Sibling names for Rameses

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

For a sister

Tatianna Caleigh Chyna Kaylah Calista Destini Carson Kayley

For a brother

Jaren Marshal Maximillian Stone Devyn Garrison Tyrese Josef

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