Ramachandran

Ramachandran is the 10,501st most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,915 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,915
Rank: 10,501st
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from ml രാമചന്ദ്രൻ and Tamil இராமச்சந்திரன், both from Sanskrit रामचन्द्र (राम (“dark”) + चन्द्र (“moon”)).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.3%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (born 1951)Indian-American neuroscientist

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

Surnames like Ramachandran

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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.