Ramo
English
Etymology
Various origins:
- Borrowed from Finnish Rämö, a surname of unexplained origin.
- Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Ramo, a habitational surname.
- Borrowed from Spanish Ramo, a topographic surname from ramo (“branch”). Compare Ramos.
Proper noun
Ramo (plural Ramos)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ramo is the 36970th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 604 individuals. Ramo is most common among White (59.44%) and Hispanic/Latino (30.3%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ramo”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.