Is Ramses a boy or girl name?

Ramses is a boy’s name. Of the 3,460 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 0.0% were girls and 100.0% were boys.

Ramses

Recorded 1970–2025 · United States

Ramses was most popular in 2008, when 152 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,680 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,652, with 95 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,460 people named Ramses.

Ramses over time

Births per year. The dot marks Ramses’s peak in 2008. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

Is Ramses a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Ramses is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 3,460 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

Names that peaked alongside Ramses

Where Ramses is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org