as a Last Name
- 85,581
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ramsey
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), so called from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’. There are other places in England called Ramsey, but the one in Huntingdonshire is almost certainly the source of the surname. The usual spelling of the surname in Scotland is Ramsay.
| 369th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 85,581
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Ramsey per capita
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