Ramaswami
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pers. name, Sanskrit
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Ramaswami is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 5.5M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 66Kfew recordsas Ramaswamy
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 Ramaswami 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
1,007 named Ramaswamy, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ramaswamy in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)pers. name, Sanskrit
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ramaswami 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 | — | 1,007as Ramaswamy | 1 in 330K | 1.3K | Ramaswamy | 219 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Ramaswami | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Ramaswamy | 10 |
| IN India | — | 241 | 1 in 5.5M | 241 | Ramaswamy | 160 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 461K | 77 | Ramaswamy | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Ramaswamy | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Ramaswamy | 52 |
| AO Angola | #669 | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Ramaswamy | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Ramaswamy | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 7 |
1,007 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Ramya Ramaswamib. 1982GBBritish medical oncologist
- Anu RamaswamiUSenvironmental engineer
- Mani RamaswamiUSresearcher
- Madabusi Srinivasa Ramaswamibotanist
- Geetha Pilaiyarkulam RamaswamiGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 1996
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 241 | #15,606 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 221 | #13,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 87 | #3,240 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #12,977 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #7,371 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Ramaswami mean, and where does it come from?
- pers. name, Sanskrit Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Ramaswami have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Ramaswamy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ramaswami most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ramaswami is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ramaswami?
- In India, the national register counted 241 people named Ramaswami, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
- How common is Ramaswami compared with other names?
- In Angola, Ramaswami is the 669th most common surname of 23,432 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/ramaswamiThe 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, “Ramaswami” — the 669th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.