Râm
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shady (abounding in shade)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Râm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- NPNepal≈1 in 145(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 396
- PKPakistan≈1 in 29K
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 Râm 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #122 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145 (inferred from the name graph)
3,352,858 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ram in IN India, PK Pakistan, FI Finland 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)
shady (abounding in shade)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Râm 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 | 3,352,858 | 1 in 396 | 3.4M | Ram | 294 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 145 | — | Ram | 105 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Ram | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Rom | 78 |
| PK Pakistan | #517 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 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 | 1,121 | 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; 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)
Râm is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In rgn, copper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, Rome
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, okvir
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Râm mean, and where does it come from?
- shady (abounding in shade) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Râm have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.4 million people named Râm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ram.
- How common is the name Râm?
- In India, the national register counted 3,352,858 people named Râm, about 1 in 396 residents.
- How common is Râm compared with other names?
- In India, Râm is the 20th most common surname of 1,492,515 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, “Râm” — the 20th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.