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Ramsey

Pronounced /ˈɹæmzi/

Rank in 2024
#1,747
Born in 2024
94
Peak year
2017 · #1208
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:70 in 2024 (#2,532)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 94 boys were named Ramsey, about 1 in every 18,248.
  • It peaked in 2017 with 152 babies, ranked #1208.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1894.
  • 6,524 boys 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.

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Greatest: 187 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 184 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 391 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 944 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,608 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,721 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,482 babies, 0.07 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.