Ramona
Ramona is ranked 772nd among girls in 2024 (364 births). Its best rank was 117th, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- #772up 22 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3640.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19282,239 births
- Best rank
- #117in 1928
- Since 1881
- 70,496people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,496 girls have been named Ramona in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 2,239 births — 0.19% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ramona | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 55 | |
| 1890s | 232 | |
| 1900s | 491 | |
| 1910s | 2,207 | |
| 1920s | 7,680 | |
| 1930s | 10,118 | |
| 1940s | 7,803 | |
| 1950s | 14,650 | |
| 1960s | 12,926 | |
| 1970s | 5,784 | |
| 1980s | 2,351 | |
| 1990s | 1,115 | |
| 2000s | 881 | |
| 2010s | 2,431 | |
| 2020s | 1,772 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Ramona was the 117th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Ramona
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Romonapeak 1955
- Wandapeak 1957
- Madonnapeak 1954
- Twilapeak 1960
- Joyepeak 1932
- Beliapeak 1931
- Nadinepeak 1958
- Lorethapeak 1954
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.