How Many People Are Named Rameses?
people named Rameses are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,761,777 people in the US has this name
Based on 198 babies named Rameses in Social Security records from 1975 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
13 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Egyptian Ra-msj-sw meaning "born of Ra", composed of the name of the supreme god RA combined with the Egyptian root mesu "be born". Rameses was the name of eleven Egyptian kings of the New Kingdom. The most important of these were Rameses II the Great who campaigned against the Hittites and also built several great monuments, and Rameses III who defended Egypt from the Libyans and Sea Peoples.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Rameses in English. Counting Rameses and these spellings together, about 406 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Rameses in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rameses alive today is about 19 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rameses first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1999, to 13 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Rameses has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #5,246, in 1999.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #5,246 (1999) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #7,780 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rameses alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rameses were born in California than in any other state: about 6 of those alive today.
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