Řăm

surname · Latin script

Řăm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. nickname from Middle English ram ‘ram’. Some examples may belong under (2).

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 396(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 29K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.3Kas Rama

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Řăm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

3,352,858 people

#122 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
348 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 396 (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ŘămLatin(measured from records)
রামBengali(measured from records)
ริมThai(measured from records)
రామTelugu(measured from records)
РамCyrillic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ram in IN India, PK Pakistan, FI Finland and 4 more and Rom in PH Philippines.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. nickname from Middle English ram ‘ram’. Some examples may belong under (2).

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Řăm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Řăm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#203,352,8581 in 3963.4MRam294
ID Indonesia—≈54,000 est.≈1 in 4.9KlistedRam82
PH Philippines—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Rom78
PK Pakistan#517≈8,100 est.≈1 in 29KlistedRam42
BD Bangladesh#458≈6,300 est.≈1 in 26K—Ram40
HR Croatia—2,492as Car1 in 1.7K2.5KRam10
FI Finland—1,607as Rämä1 in 3.5K4.1KRam9
GY Guyana#521,1211 in 6691.1KRam7

3,352,858 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Řăm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Řăm mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. nickname from Middle English ram ‘ram’. Some examples may belong under (2). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
In which country does Řăm have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 3.4 million people named Řăm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ram.
Where is Řăm most common?
Řăm is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 396 people carrying it.
How common is the name Řăm?
In India, the national register counted 3,352,858 people named Řăm, about 1 in 396 residents.
How common is Řăm compared with other names?
In India, Řăm is the 20th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Řăm” — the 20th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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