Ramsey is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
Few children have been named Ramsey in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 6 out of 100,000 children are currently called Ramsey. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Ramsey at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Ramsey is number *** on the list of most common first names.
While Ramsey isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2017 the name Ramsey reached its highest popularity with #1,809 in our ranking of all first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their child Ramsey (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five newborns named Ramsey to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Ramsey has been given to babies in 113 of the 143 years since records began, making kids with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ramsey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 188 babies were born with the name Ramsey. This puts the name in rank 2,355 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,758,521 newborns was named Ramsey that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Ramsey has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 4.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common initial letters of first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Ramsey is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Ramsey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ramsey, you can simply say:
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Apple
Mouse
Sun
Elephant
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ramsey sounds like this:
