Ramona

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ramona is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Dominican Republic it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Ramon/Raimond, from Germanic elements meaning 'counsel' and 'protector'.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 117◐
  • DODominican Republic1 in 137
  • VEVenezuela1 in 470

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈100K ●

across 10 countries

#784 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
376 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.9K ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

RamonaLatin · Spanish●2.4M records
רמונהHebrew · Hebrew●1.5K records
ราโมน่าThai · Thai●36 records

Locally spelled Ramóna in HU Hungary and רמונה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Feminine form of Ramon/Raimond, from Germanic elements meaning 'counsel' and 'protector'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ramona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1351,303,297873K rec.—43Ramona76
VE Venezuela#54401,867244K rec.——Ramona42
PY Paraguay#15270,77249K rec.——Ramona33
MX Mexico#299140,020117K rec.—361Ramona111
DE Germany#25989,86284K rec.——Ramona203
DO Dominican Republic#672,3728.8K rec.—20KRamona47
US United States#55462,620649K rec.1 in 5.3K63KRamona376
GB United Kingdom#75221,49424K rec.——Ramona110
NL Netherlands#78919,4203.6K rec.—2.8KRamona62
NI Nicaragua#4018,74919K rec.——Ramona12
ES Spain#31118,11719K rec.1 in 2.8K20KRamona107
UY Uruguay#10117,27914K rec.——Ramona24

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish2.4M67%
  • English666K19%
  • German123K3%
  • Portuguese107K3%
  • 38K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish2,408,19167%
English665,56619%
German122,7163%
Portuguese107,4843%
38,1911%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ramona is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name42K records spelled Ramona3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Romania

    Also written Ramon-A, Ramóna

  • Catalan given name32K records spelled Ramona4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Ramóna, Ramonă

  • Romanian given name19K records spelled Ramona5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Ramóna, Ramońa, Rämönä

  • Polish given name13K records spelled Ramona24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Croatia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Russian

    Also written Рамона, Ramóna, Ramòna

  • Hungarian given name8.6K records spelled Ramona4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, Romania

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ramóna

  • Bangla given name5.1K records spelled Ramona59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, English, Hindi

    Also written Rumana, Romana, রুমানা, Rumna, রোমানা

  • Indonesian given name4.7K records spelled Ramona3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ramóna

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ramona 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 Vietnamese, From Spanish and Germanic; means “protector”; used for women.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In English, Spanish feminine form of Ramon/Raymond; wise protector

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Swedish, Ramona är en femininform till → Ramon. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 15 juli.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Forme espagnole de Raymonde; origine germanique, « conseil du monde ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Colei che protegge con il consiglio

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900195020002.2K · 1928

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Ramona in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18817
18826
18837
18846
18879
188812
18898
189012
189111
189219
189319
189418
189529
189627
189724
189833
189940
190029
190126
190244
190335
190445
190553
190665
190771
190870
190953
191084
191181
1912132
1913196
1914207
1915231
1916278
1917296
1918358
1919344
1920374
1921391
1922339
1923390
1924429
1925450
1926466
1927566
19282,239
19292,036
19301,410
19311,130
19321,048
1933952
1934929
1935885
1936859
19371,018
19381,001
1939886
1940840
1941786
1942756
1943795
1944676
1945650
1946723
1947869
1948831
1949877
19501,036
19511,115
19521,228
19531,455
19541,610
19551,646
19561,643
19571,717
19581,553
19591,647
19601,555
19611,630
19621,520
19631,434
19641,348
19651,269
19661,146
19671,016
19681,040
1969968
1970914
1971821
1972687
1973598
1974519
1975509
1976437
1977519
1978387
1979393
1980317
1981306
1982284
1983267
1984199
1985215
1986189
1987210
1988201
1989163
1990138
1991149
1992153
1993107
1994124
1995110
1996100
199772
199870
199992
200078
200178
200278
200382
200476
200588
200682
200795
2008116
2009108
2010126
2011175
2012200
2013199
2014237
2015246
2016288
2017303
2018323
2019335
2020337
2021356
2022361
2023356
2024366
2025373

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Mercedes of Orléans, b. 1860Mercédès Jellinek, b. 1889Victoria Ocampo, b. 1890Sapphire, b. 1950Delta Burke, b. 1956Avril Lavigne, b. 1984Ramona Bachmann, b. 1990Ramona Young, b. 1998Ramona Marquez, b. 2001

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 100 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Ramona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202063K#786
DO Dominican RepublicJCE — Nombres más registrados (annual)202520K#6
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—20K#188
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—18K#367
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20249K#227
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6K#2,986
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20225.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.3K#2,620
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.8K#1,110
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242K#771
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.6K#1,215
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.5K#1,280

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,127 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ramona?
We estimate roughly 100 thousand people bear Ramona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ramona have the most bearers?
Ramona is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ramona.
How common is Ramona compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ramona is the 135th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Ramona a male or female name?
Ramona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ramona mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Ramon/Raimond, from Germanic elements meaning 'counsel' and 'protector'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ramona” — the 135th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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