Ramey

20,768 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ramey in the 2020 census, making it the 1,689th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,768
Rank: 1,689th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 7.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ramey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ramey

Samuel Ramey (born 1942)American operatic bass
Étienne-Jules Ramey (1796–1852)sculptor from France

People named Ramey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ramey

Also a first name

Ramey has been given to 1,005 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1976. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.