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Ramona

Feminine form of Ramón.

PronunciationSpanish /ra.ˈmo.na/; English /ɹə.ˈmoʊn.ə/
Usage languagesEnglish, Romanian, Spanish
US rank (2025)#733

Meaning and history

Feminine form of Ramón, popularized in the English-speaking world by Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel Ramona (1884) and by several later films based on the book.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 82 births, rank #2,308
2007: 95 births, rank #2,117
2008: 116 births, rank #1,844
2009: 108 births, rank #1,934
2010: 126 births, rank #1,678
20112011: 175 births, rank #1,329
2012: 200 births, rank #1,214
2013: 199 births, rank #1,203
2014: 237 births, rank #1,079
2015: 246 births, rank #1,068
20162016: 288 births, rank #949
2017: 303 births, rank #890
2018: 323 births, rank #839
2019: 335 births, rank #817
2020: 337 births, rank #803
20212021: 356 births, rank #793
2022: 361 births, rank #787
2023: 356 births, rank #790
2024: 366 births, rank #770
20252025: 373 births, rank #733

Ramona rose from #771 to #733 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1928, with 2,239 births.