Ramatoulaye
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- rah-mah-too-LYE
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Ramatoulaye is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “mercy of God”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Ramatoulaye mean?
Arabic: West African form of Rahmatullah
“mercy of God”
Ramatoulaye is the narrator of Mariama Ba's celebrated Senegalese novel So Long a Letter (1979).
Is Ramatoulaye a girl's or a boy's name?
Ramatoulaye is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ramatoulaye in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Ramatoulaye, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Ramatoulaye in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ramatoulaye in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
Nicknames for Ramatoulaye
- Rama 3 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ramatoulaye
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Zaniyah, Rahma, Zahara, Safiya, Hadassah, Rahaf, Fatoumata, Samiyah, Ruqayyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ramatoulaye: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ramatoulaye, updated 20 October 2026.