Ramírez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ramírez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 50(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 69
- PYParaguay≈1 in 96
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #48 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 546 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50 (inferred from the name graph)
557,423 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ramirez in US United States, PE Peru, AR Argentina and 4 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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramírez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #37 | 557,423 | 1 in 597 | 557K | Ramirez | 546 |
| CO Colombia | #8 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 142 | 232 | Ramirez | 234 |
| VE Venezuela | #11 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | 1.6K | Ramirez | 135 |
| AR Argentina | #17 | 234,866 | 1 in 194 | 235K | Ramirez | 164 |
| PE Peru | #14 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 147 | 463K | Ramirez | 153 |
| CR Costa Rica | #221 | 100,951 | 1 in 50 | 101K | Ramírez | 153 |
| SV El Salvador | #8 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | 99K | Ramirez | 103 |
| PY Paraguay | #7 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 96 | — | Ramirez | 90 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 28,327 | 1 in 120 | 28K | — | 88 |
557,423 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlos the Jackalb. 1949VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan-born international terror operative
- Richard Ramirezb. 1960USAmerican serial killer (1960–2013)
- Hugo López-Gatellb. 1969MXnot in their usual nameMexican physician, researcher, professor and public official - Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion
- Sara Ramirezb. 1975MXMexican-American actor and singer
- Édgar Ramírezb. 1977VEVenezuelan actor
- Dania Ramirezb. 1979DODominican actress
- Gustavo Dudamelb. 1981VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan conductor and violinist
- David Ospinab. 1988COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Giovani dos Santosb. 1989MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Xolo Maridueñab. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 463K | #16 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 18 | #98 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ramírez mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ramírez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 557 thousand people named Ramírez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramirez.
- Where is Ramírez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ramírez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 50 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ramírez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 557,423 people named Ramírez in 2010, about 1 in 597 residents.
- How common is Ramírez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ramírez is the 37th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ram%C3%ADrezThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ramírez” — the 37th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.