girl's name

Ramah

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 302

Ramah is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2025, when 16 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 207,211 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1911.

Ramah over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Ramah by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 27
1920s 67
1930s 40
1940s 51
1950s 5
1970s 10
1980s 6
1990s 10
2000s 16
2010s 11
2020s (to 2025) 51

How popular is Ramah?

In 2025, Ramah was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Ramah is used

England & Wales #3,789 3 in 2000
United States #7,069 16 in 2025
France #7,466 5 in 2017

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Ramah

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Ramah also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Ramah over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Ramah

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Ramah — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Ramah

How popular is the name Ramah?

In 2025, Ramah was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Ramah a girl's or a boy's name?

Ramah is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Ramah most popular?

Ramah peaked in 2025, when 16 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Ramah a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Ramah currently ranks #7,069 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.