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Ramsay

#10,432 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Wild garlic + island, through Ramsey

Ramsay has been given to 463 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #10,432 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.

Babies named Ramsay, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ramsay over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ramsay over time

In 2025, Ramsay went to 42% girls and 58% boys.

19222025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ramsay: meaning, origin, and history

Wild garlic + island, through Ramsey

surname transfer

What Ramsay means

Ramsay belongs to the name family reached through Ramsay → Ramsey. Its meaning is “wild garlic + island”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ramsay is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Ramsay is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ramsey.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ramsay is pronounced /ˈɹæmzi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 388 boys were recorded with the name Ramsay between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,247 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,345 in 2020 to #10,432 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,763 in 2015 to #10,432 in 2025.

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Ramsay between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2017; its best national rank was #10,017 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,728 in 2020 to #16,713 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,521 in 2015 to #16,713 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 Ramsay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,432
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ramsay 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ramsay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramsays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ramsay was born before 2003 — so the typical Ramsay is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
360
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2010s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Ramsay 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
+1,589
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−87
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,331
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 2017 (16)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,247
1948

Spellings of Ramsay

Ramsay is not the most common spelling — Ramsey is, with 54.3% against Ramsay's 3.2%.

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 Ramsay is used

Across 1910–2025, Ramsay was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Ramsay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ramsay around the world

Where Ramsay 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
    1997–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1947–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ramsay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,432
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 87
Best rank ever
#3,247
1948
Peak year
2017
16 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
388
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,713
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,985
Best rank ever
#10,017
1984
Peak year
2017
9 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ramsay

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

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Sibling names for Ramsay

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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