Ramón
given name · Latin script
Meaning: breadnut (tree or shrub)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ramon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ramón is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 99(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 148
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 153
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #166 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 502 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 99 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ramon in AR Argentina, US United States, VE Venezuela and 5 more.
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)
breadnut (tree or shrub)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramón 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #13 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | 3.2K | Ramon | 137 |
| VE Venezuela | #11 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 192 | — | Ramon | 116 |
| PH Philippines | #100 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 798 | listed | Ramon | 139 |
| US United States | #345 | 114,143 | 1 in 2.9K | 114K | Ramon | 502 |
| ES Spain | #28 | 106,318 | 1 in 470 | 113K | Ramon | 248 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #5 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 99 | 28K | Ramon | 100 |
| PY Paraguay | #1 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | 221K | Ramon | 77 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #12 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | — | Ramon | 82 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015; the ph-wiktionary-names register; JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ramón is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, im 20. Jh. entlehnter männl. Vom., spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Spanish form of RAYMOND . This name is in frequent use in America among people of Hispanic descent, but has not been taken up outside such communities to anything like the same extent as the feminine form RAMONA . Pet from: Moncho .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ramón Menéndez Pidalb. 1869ESSpanish philologist (1869-1968)
- Ramón Graub. 1887CUpresident of Cuba (1887-1969)
- Ramón Novarrob. 1899MXMexican actor (1899–1968)
- Ramon Magsaysayb. 1907PHpresident of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
- Augusto Pinochetb. 1915CLnot in their usual namedictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
- Martin Sheenb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1940)
- Ramón Díazb. 1959ARArgentine association football player and coach
- Yamandú Orsib. 1967UYnot in their usual name43rd President of Uruguay
- Daddy Yankeeb. 1976USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican rapper and actor (born 1976)
- Ramón Rodríguezb. 1979USPuerto Rican actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY Paraguay | Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015 | 2015 | 221K | #1 |
| DO Dominican Republic | JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual) | 2025 | 28K | #10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2022 | 1.7K | #8 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2023 | 1.6K | #7 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 73 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 73 | — |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ramón mean, and where does it come from?
- breadnut (tree or shrub) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ramón?
- In the etymology graph, Raymond, Ramona and Raimundo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ramón?
- A machine transcription gives /ramon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ramón a male or female name?
- Ramón is a male 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.
- In which country does Ramón have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 307 thousand people named Ramón in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramon.
- How common is the name Ramón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114,143 people named Ramón in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Ramón compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ramón is the 13th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ramón?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ram%C3%B3nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ramón” — the 13th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.