Ramu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of RAM or RAMA, Or pet form of any of the many compound names formed with Ramor Rama- (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Ramu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. Ramu is also written রাম in Bengali, ริม in Thai and రామ in Telugu.
- INIndia1 in 396as Ram(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 669as Ram
- HRCroatia1 in 1.7Kas Car
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 Ramu 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #122 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 396 (inferred from the name graph)
3,352,858 named Ram
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, as Ram
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ramu in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Thai and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ram in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 4 more and Rom in PH Philippines.
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)Variant of RAM or RAMA, Or pet form of any of the many compound names formed with Ramor Rama-.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ramu is found
(measured from records)Ramu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #20 | 3,352,858as Ram | 1 in 396 | 3.4M | Ram | 294 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Ram | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Rom | 78 |
| US United States | — | 5,037as Rome | 1 in 66K | 5.4K | Ram | 348 |
| PK Pakistan | #517 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Ram | 42 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,492as Car | 1 in 1.7K | 2.5K | Ram | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,607as Rämä | 1 in 3.5K | 4.1K | Ram | 9 |
| GY Guyana | #52 | 1,121as Ram | 1 in 669 | 1.1K | Ram | 7 |
3,352,858 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ramu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A language family of Papua New Guinea.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In scn, A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of らむ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ain, to think of, consider
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, bunch (of flowers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ramu de Bellescizeb. 1968FRjurist
- Ramu Yalamanchib. 1974USAmerican businessman
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ramu mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of RAM or RAMA, Or pet form of any of the many compound names formed with Ramor Rama-. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Ramu a male or female name?
- Ramu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ramu?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.4 million people named Ram, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Philippines, United States and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ramu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Ramu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is India's: the national register counts about 1 in 396 people named Ram.
- How common is the name Ramu?
- In India, the national register counted 3,352,858 people named Ram, about 1 in 396 residents.
- How common is Ramu compared with other names?
- In India, Ramu is the 20th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ramu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramuThe 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, “Ramu” — ranked 6th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.