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Ramla

#8,745 in 2025Girls' name

Sand

Ramla has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,745 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ramla, 2025

1 in 276,000

Ramla over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ramla: meaning, origin, and history

Sand

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ramla means

Ramla means “sand”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 276 girls were recorded with the name Ramla between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,904 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,400 in 2020 to #8,745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,904 in 2015 to #8,745 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.

How common is Ramla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,745
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ramla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ramla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ramla was born before 2014 — so the typical Ramla is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Ramla 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
+1,349
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+655
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−841
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2015 (15)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,904
2015

Spellings of Ramla

Ramla is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 25.1% against Ramla's 0.01%.

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 Ramla is used

Across 1910–2025, Ramla was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 74,042 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ramla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ramla around the world

Where Ramla 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1999–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ramla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 655
Best rank ever
#7,904
2015
Peak year
2015
15 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
276
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Ramla

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

RamahRamiaRameyRameenRamaniRamataRamiyaRamiahRamyaRamiraRamonRamsayRamayaRamiRamaRamieRamyahTamlaRamsieRamshaRamseyRamiyahRamondaRamanda

Sibling names for Ramla

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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