Rām
surname · Latin script
Rām 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).
- INIndia1 in 396(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 669
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.3K
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 Rām itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #122 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 396 (inferred from the name graph)
3,352,858 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ram in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rām is found
(measured from records)Rām 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #20 | 3,352,858 | 1 in 396 | 3.4M | Ram | 294 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Ram | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Rom | 78 |
| US United States | — | 5,037as Rome | 1 in 66K | 5.4K | Ram | 348 |
| PK Pakistan | #517 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Ram | 42 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,492as Car | 1 in 1.7K | 2.5K | Ram | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,607as Rämä | 1 in 3.5K | 4.1K | Ram | 9 |
| GY Guyana | #52 | 1,121 | 1 in 669 | 1.1K | Ram | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rām 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 sit-pro, indigo
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In gmw-pro, goal, aim
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rām 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rām?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.4 million people named Rām, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ram. After it come Indonesia, Philippines, United States and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rām most common?
- Rām is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 396 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rām?
- In India, the national register counted 3,352,858 people named Rām, about 1 in 396 residents.
- How common is Rām compared with other names?
- In India, Rām is the 20th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C4%81mThe 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, “Rām” — the 20th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.