How common is the surname Rambo?

7,154 people in the United States had the surname Rambo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,157 Americans. It ranked 4,916th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Rambo?

Dack Rambo, American actor (1941–1994), followed by John Rambo.

Where is the surname Rambo most common?

Wikidata records people named Rambo in the United States.

How do you pronounce Rambo?

Rambo is /ˈɹæmbəʊ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Rambo getting more or less common?

More common. 7,096 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,154 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Rambo

A surname, carried by 7,154 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈɹæmbəʊ/ 2 syllables Soundex R510

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rambo is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

* The name "Rambo" is of unknown origin. It can be dated back to the 17th-century Swedish immigrant Peter Gunnarsson Rambo. According to folk legend it is derived from the mountain Ramberget ("Raven’s Hill") in Gothenburg, whence the Swedish immigrants to Delaware originated in the 17th century. * "Rambo" is also the name of an old farm in Vestfold county, Norway ("Rambøe" 1664, "Ramboe" 1723) - and about 65 people in Norway have Rambo as a family name. The Old Norse form of the name might have been *Hrafnabú. The first element is then the genitive plurals of hrafn m. 'raven', and the last element is bú n. 'farm'. The name was brought to the US by Norwegian settlers. * "Rambo" became widely known after John Rambo, a fictional Vietnam War veteran and protagonist of the film series Rambo. See also Japanese 乱暴(らんぼー) (ranbō, “violence; violent; reckless; rude; rough; unreasonable”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,154 people named Rambo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,157 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,096.

#4,916

rank among US surnames

7,154

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #4,583)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,907	Gabel	7,177	43,019
#4,908	Pride	7,172	43,049
#4,909	Encarnacion	7,171	43,055
#4,910	Null	7,170	43,061
#4,912	Binkley	7,159	43,127
#4,913	Blodgett	7,157	43,139
#4,914	Garrity	7,156	43,145

Who is named Rambo

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

81% of people named Rambo identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 12%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Rambos

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Dack Rambo
American actor (1941–1994)
John Rambo
American athletics competitor (1943–2022)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rambo

Rambo has the Soundex code R510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R510.

Questions

Where does the surname Rambo come from?: * The name "Rambo" is of unknown origin. It can be dated back to the 17th-century Swedish immigrant Peter Gunnarsson Rambo. According to folk legend it is derived from the mountain Ramberget ("Raven’s Hill") in Gothenburg, whence the Swedish immigrants to Delaware originated in the 17th century. *…
How common is the surname Rambo?: 7,154 people in the United States had the surname Rambo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,157 Americans. It ranked 4,916th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rambo?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Rambo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Rambo?: Dack Rambo, American actor (1941–1994), followed by John Rambo.
Where is the surname Rambo most common?: Wikidata records people named Rambo in the United States.
How do you pronounce Rambo?: Rambo is /ˈɹæmbəʊ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Rambo getting more or less common?: More common. 7,096 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,154 in 2010, up 0.8%.