Ramachandran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu name from Sanskrit rdma ‘pleasing’ and chandra ‘shining, moon’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹæmækhændɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ramachandran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 160K
- INIndia1 in 446K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hindu name from Sanskrit rdma ‘pleasing’ and chandra ‘shining, moon’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramachandran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #580 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 271 | Ramachandran | 60 |
| AO Angola | #481 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Ramachandran | 2 |
| IN India | — | 2,975 | 1 in 446K | 3K | Ramachandran | 221 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #730 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ramachandran | 30 |
| US United States | — | 2,074 | 1 in 160K | 2.9K | Ramachandran | 277 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Ramachandran | 3 |
| SG Singapore | #866 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ramachandran | 63 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)
- R. Ramachandranb. 1923INIndian poet
- Padminib. 1932INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1932–2006)
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandranb. 1951INIndian-American neuroscientist
- Devan Ramachandranb. 1968INJudge of Kerala High Court
- Shlok Ramchandranb. 1995INnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Arjun Matathil Ramachandranb. 1997INbadminton player
- Satheishtharan Ramachandranb. 1997MYbadminton player
- Naman RamachandranINIndian author and journalist
- Kanhangad RamachandranINmusician
- Marudarajan Ramachandraneconomist (Pondicherry University)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.9K | #144 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3K | #2,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,011 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 196 | #2,336 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 187 | #14,790 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 60 | #298 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 23 | #563 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ramachandran mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name from Sanskrit rdma ‘pleasing’ and chandra ‘shining, moon’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ramachandran?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹæmækhændɹən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ramachandran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Ramachandran in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramachandran.
- How common is the name Ramachandran?
- In India, the national register counted 2,975 people named Ramachandran, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
- How common is Ramachandran compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ramachandran is the 580th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramachandranThe 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, “Ramachandran” — the 580th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.