Ramirez

544,204 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ramirez in the 2020 census, making it the 27th most common in the country. That is about one person in 549.

By the numbers

People: 544,204
Rank: 27th
How common: 1 in 549
Per 100,000: 182.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.6%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ramirez

Richard Ramirez (1960–2013)American serial killer
Gastón Ramírez (born 1990)Uruguayan footballer
Sara Ramirez (born 1975)Mexican-American actor and singer
Sandro Ramírez (born 1995)Spanish association football player
Dania Ramirez (born 1979)Dominican actress
Édgar Ramírez (born 1977)Venezuelan actor
García Ramírez of Navarre (1112–1150)King of Navarre
Sergio Ramírez (born 1942)Nicaraguan writer and politician

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

Surnames like Ramirez

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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.