Ram

At the 2020 census, 4,896 Americans bore the surname Ram — 6,632nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 61,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,896
Rank: 6,632nd
How common: 1 in 61,000
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

From Hebrew רָם.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ram described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 66.8%
White, not Hispanic 13.4%
Hispanic or Latino 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Ram

Rajeev Ram (born 1984)American tennis player
Andy Ram (born 1980)Israeli tennis player
Jagjivan Ram (1908–1986)Indian independence activist and politician
Limba Ram (born 1972)Indian archer
Rachita Ram (born 1992)Indian actress

People named Ram with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ram

Also a first name

Ram has been given to 1,123 American babies as a first name since 1970, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.