Ramalho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pequeño ramo; small branch
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɐmaʎu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ramalho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 17K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 598K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ramalho itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
10,466 named Ramallo
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
pequeño ramo; small branch
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramalho 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 | 10,466as Ramallo | 1 in 4.3K | 10K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 1,900as Ramallo | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Ramalho | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 954as Ramallo | 1 in 3.6K | 954 | — | — |
| US United States | 556 | 1 in 598K | 568 | Ramalho | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 316 | 1 in 27K | 316 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 45 | 1 in 17K | 45 | — | — |
10,466 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- João Ramalhob. 1493PTPortuguese explorer (1493-1580)
- Ramalho Ortigãob. 1836PTPortuguese writer (1836–1915)
- Joao Ramalhob. 1901BRBrazilian rower
- Wendell Lucena Ramalhob. 1947BRBrazilian footballer
- Zé Ramalhob. 1949BRBrazilian composer and performer (born 1949)
- Muricy Ramalhob. 1955BRBrazilian association football player
- José Ramalho Carvalho de Freitasb. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
- André Ramalhob. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Jonás Ramalhob. 1993ESSpanish footballer
- Key Alvesb. 2000BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian volleyball player
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 568 | #41,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 556 | #39,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 459 | #44,192 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 316 | #4,150 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 165 | #19,045 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 165 | #19,027 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 45 | #580 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 37 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Ramalho mean, and where does it come from?
- pequeño ramo; small branch Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Ramalho?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɐmaʎu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Ramalho have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Ramallo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ramalho most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ramalho is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ramalho?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556 people named Ramalho in 2010, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramalhoThe 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, “Ramalho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.