girls:
70.1k births since 1881
#469 (92nd percentile)
boys:
249 births since 1916
#4337 (5th percentile)
overall:
70.4k births since 1881
#866 (89th percentile)
The name Ramona is the #866 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70,377 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 88.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #469 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 70,128 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,337 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 249 births since 1916.
Ramona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Ramona is available in 141 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 35 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ramona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ramona reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 81.2% percentile (ranked #115) with 1,873 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 1,873 births per million (ranked 81.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ramona ranks #617 for girls (34.9% percentile) with 201 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ramona reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #522) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ramona".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ramona is pronounced as ruh-MOH-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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