# Ramos (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/ramos/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 263,464 |
| US rank (2010) | 76 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,172 people |
| Change since 2000 | +36% (193,096 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Ramos, from ramo (“branch”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Ramos in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 6.5% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 87% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Ramos in Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Timor-Leste and Uruguay.

## People named Ramos

- José Ramos-Horta, 2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
- Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (1930-2002)
- Anthony Ramos, American actor and singer (born 1991)
- Marcelo Ramos, Brazilian association football player
- Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)
- Tab Ramos, American soccer player and manager
- José Ramos Delgado, Argentine footballer (1935-2010)
- Leonardo Ramos, Argentine association football player
- Hipólito Ramos, boxer
- Larissa Ramos, Brazilian model
- Mel Ramos, American artist (1935-2018)
- Murilo Ramos Krieger, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazil

and 25 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Ramsey, Ramsay, Reams, Reames, Ramus, Ramesh, Reynoso, Raines, Ring, Rains, Reinke, Rumsey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.