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Ramsey

Pronounced /ˈɹæmzi/

Rank in 2024
#2,532
Born in 2024
70
Peak year
2021 · #1722
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:94 in 2024 (#1,747)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 70 girls were named Ramsey, about 1 in every 23,046.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 120 babies, ranked #1722.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1965.
  • 2,183 girls have been named Ramsey since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ramsey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 77 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 294 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 728 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,084 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”) + īeġ (“island”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɹæmzi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ramsey, CC BY-SA 4.0.