Ramatu
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ramatu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 5.6K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- SLSierra Leone1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈321 ●
- Sources
- 97 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 5 countries
22K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #565 | 12,990 | 19K rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 48 |
| GH Ghana | #319 | 507 | 466 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 29 |
| IN India | — | 327 | 316 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 4 |
| US United States | — | 302 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 302 | Ramatu | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 170 | 139 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 33 |
| EG Egypt | — | 130 | 127 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 45 | 44 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | 40 | 38 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 17 |
| KE Kenya | — | 32 | 2 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 21 | 21 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 20 | 0 rec. | — | — | Ramatu | 2 |
| SL Sierra Leone | #195 | 16 | 40 rec. | — | 3 | Ramatu | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English8.9K38%
- Swahili4.9K21%
- Hindi3.4K14%
- Indonesian1.9K8%
- Arabic1K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,941 | 38% |
| Swahili | 4,947 | 21% |
| Hindi | 3,359 | 14% |
| Indonesian | 1,949 | 8% |
| Arabic | 1,021 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Rahma Riadb. 1987IQnot in their usual nameIraqi singer
- Ramatu Yakubub. 1999NGNigerian badminton player
- Ramatu BabaGHGhanaian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ramatu?
- We estimate roughly 321 people bear Ramatu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ramatu have the most bearers?
- Ramatu is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled ramatu.
- How common is Ramatu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ramatu is the 565th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Ramatu a male or female name?
- Ramatu is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ramatu” — the 565th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.