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Rasmus

#7,095 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly lovely, pleasant, beloved, desired, through Erasmus

Rasmus has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #7,095 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Rasmus, 2025

1 in 276,000

Rasmus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rasmus: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly lovely, pleasant, beloved, desired, through Erasmus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rasmus means

Rasmus belongs to the name family reached through Rasmus → Erasmus. Its meaning is “lovely, pleasant, beloved, desired”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rasmus is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erasmus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Rasmus is pronounced /ˈrasmus/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 146 boys were recorded with the name Rasmus between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,150 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,598 in 2020 to #7,095 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,566 in 2015 to #7,095 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 Rasmus?

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 boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,095
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Rasmuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rasmus was born before 2018 — so the typical Rasmus is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
141
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Rasmus 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
−1,705
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,503
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,471
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2024 (18)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
75.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,150
1888

Spellings of Rasmus

Rasmus is not the most common spelling — Remus is, with 57.4% against Rasmus's 8.8%.

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.

Rasmus around the world

Where Rasmus 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
    2003–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #347
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #422
    in 1980

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

Rasmus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,095
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,503
Best rank ever
#1,150
1888
Peak year
2024
18 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Rasmus

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

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Sibling names for Rasmus

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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