Ramos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person from a heavily wooded area, or from a place called Ramos; from Spanish/Portuguese ramos ‘branches’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ramos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ramos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 96(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 116
  • PEPeru≈1 in 135

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈420,000 people, est.

#84 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
532 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 96 (inferred from the name graph)

Puerto Rico, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RamosLatin(measured from records)
РамосCyrillic(measured from records)
ΡαμοςGreek(measured from records)
რამოსGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Person from a heavily wooded area, or from a place called Ramos; from Spanish/Portuguese ramos ‘branches’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ramos 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 Ramos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#4≈420,000 est.≈1 in 262—Ramos187
US United States#77263,4641 in 1.3K269KRamos532
PE Peru#10≈240,000 est.≈1 in 135515KRamos132
ES Spain#24149,6771 in 334150KRamos259
VE Venezuela#36≈120,000 est.≈1 in 234—Ramos111
BO Bolivia#102≈68,000 est.≈1 in 170—Ramos69
SV El Salvador#19≈56,000 est.≈1 in 116—Ramos89
PR Puerto Rico#14≈33,000 est.≈1 in 96—Ramos101

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ramos is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Rámos, R-Amos, Ram-Os, Ràmos, Ramós

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Ràmos

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Also written Rämös, Rąmôs, Ràmôs

  • Lao surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Thailand, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Ramo, รามอ, รามอส, ราโมส, Ramot

  • Norwegian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Spain, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish

    Also written Råmös, Ramös, Řãmŏş

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Ŕąmôş

93 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ramos is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Iloko, a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Ramos, common on most Ilocano-speaking areas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, accusative plural of rāmus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, plural of ramu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

192019401960198020002020Fidel V. Ramos, b. 1928José Ramos-Horta, b. 1949Juande Ramos, b. 1954Ruy Ramos, b. 1957Sergio Ramos, b. 1986Jordi Alba, b. 1989Brooklyn Lee, b. 1989Anthony Ramos, b. 1991Dani Carvajal, b. 1992Gonçalo Ramos, b. 2001
  • Fidel V. Ramosb. 1928PHPresident of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998
  • José Ramos-Hortab. 1949TL2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Juande Ramosb. 1954ESSpanish footballer and manager
  • Ruy Ramosb. 1957JPJapanese association football player and manager
  • Sergio Ramosb. 1986ESSpanish association football player (born 1986)
  • Jordi Albab. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
  • Brooklyn Leeb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
  • Anthony Ramosb. 1991USAmerican actor and singer (born 1991)
  • Dani Carvajalb. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (born 1992)
  • Gonçalo Ramosb. 2001PTPortuguese footballer (born 2001)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Ramos,Dear Ramos, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ramos,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 76 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Ramos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025)2025515K#11
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019478K#6
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020269K#74
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010263K#76
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000193K#112
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—150K#25
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—150K#25

Reference works 7

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 Ramos mean, and where does it come from?
Person from a heavily wooded area, or from a place called Ramos; from Spanish/Portuguese ramos ‘branches’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Ramos?
A machine transcription gives /ramos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Ramos?
In the etymology graph, Ramoss is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ramos have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 416 thousand people named Ramos in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramos.
How common is the name Ramos?
In the United States, the national register counted 263,464 people named Ramos in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Ramos compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Ramos is the 4th most common surname of 876,464 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, “Ramos” — the 4th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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