Ramasamy

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Ramasamy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tamil ராமசாமி (rāmacāmi). Compound of இராமர் (irāmar) + சாமி (cāmi).

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 7.9K
  • USUnited States1 in 516K

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)

≈22,000 people, est.

Sources
221 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Tamil ராமசாமி (rāmacāmi). Compound of இராமர் (irāmar) + சாமி (cāmi).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ramasamy 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 Ramasamy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#107≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K316Ramasamy80
ID Indonesia—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 22K—Ramasamy10
AO Angola—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 24K—Ramasamy3
SG Singapore#483≈790 est.≈1 in 7.9K—Ramasamy61
US United States—6451 in 516K1.1KRamasamy221
AE United Arab Emirates—≈500 est.≈1 in 20K—Ramasamy28
BH Bahrain—≈97 est.≈1 in 15K—Ramasamy7

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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Ramasamy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ramas-Amy

  • Thai surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Thailand, United States

    Also written รามาซามี, รามาซามิ, รามาซาม, รามาซามี่

46 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Ramasamy जी,Respected Ramasamy ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Ramasamy जी,Hi Ramasamy, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Ramasamy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010645#34,967
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000208#83,965
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Ramasamy mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Tamil ராமசாமி (rāmacāmi). Compound of இராமர் (irāmar) + சாமி (cāmi). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Ramasamy?
A machine transcription gives /ɹəməzəmi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Ramasamy have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Ramasamy in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramasamy.
How common is the name Ramasamy?
In the United States, the national register counted 645 people named Ramasamy in 2010, about 1 in 516 thousand residents.
How common is Ramasamy compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Ramasamy is the 107th most common surname of 291,743 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, “Ramasamy” — the 107th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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