Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Ram's land

Boy name variations

Ramsay

Ramsay

- 13% this year
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Ransden

Ransden

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How Popular Is The Name Ramsey

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.