Ramona
- Pronunciation
- [Ra-mo-na]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Wise Guardian
- Origin
- Romanian
About the Name Ramona
Ramona is the feminine form of Ramón, the Spanish version of the Germanic name Raymond, built from elements meaning "counsel" and "protection" — hence the lovely gloss "wise guardian." Carried into the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, Ramona gained a romantic, literary glamour and has long been admired as a warm, vintage name with a strong, rolling cadence and an old-world dignity that suits its current revival beautifully.
Part of the name's modern charm is its built-in nickname: the recorded variant Mona offers a sleek, single-syllable alternative for everyday use, while the full form keeps its lyrical, three-syllable sweep. That flexibility, paired with its retro warmth and its appealing meaning, has helped Ramona ride the current wave of revived heritage names that parents are rediscovering after generations of quiet.
In the United States, Ramona first entered the Social Security top-1000 in 2016 and has climbed steadily since, reaching its best rank to date of #772 in 2024 — its most recent and strongest year on the list. It accounted for roughly 3,021 births across that span and continues to rise. That fresh upward momentum makes Ramona very much a name of the moment: an antique favorite enjoying a genuine, ongoing revival, and one whose trajectory still points clearly upward toward even wider recognition.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Ramona
US Popularity History (2016–2025)
Annual US births named Ramona by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 373 girls named Ramona (girl rank #733 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Ramona Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Ramona the strongest states are Oregon, Washington, Iowa.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon | #283 | 134 |
| 2 | Washington | #496 | 135 |
| 3 | Iowa | #549 | 19 |
| 4 | Nevada | #562 | 16 |
| 5 | Colorado | #601 | 77 |
| 6 | Utah | #604 | 35 |
| 7 | Minnesota | #624 | 81 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | #649 | 81 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | #657 | 66 |
| 10 | Kansas | #665 | 15 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #1,045 | 35 |
| 2 | Georgia | #1,012 | 29 |
| 3 | Florida | #962 | 67 |
| 4 | Texas | #957 | 92 |
| 5 | Maryland | #911 | 17 |
| 6 | California | #817 | 362 |
| 7 | New York | #801 | 145 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | #779 | 91 |
| 9 | Virginia | #737 | 56 |
| 10 | Illinois | #725 | 136 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Ramona in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mona | Lady | Female | Italian |
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Compare Ramona to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Ramona against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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