Ramos

See also: ramos

English

Etymology 1

TPLEX Ramos (Paniqui) Exit

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

Proper noun

Ramos (countable and uncountable, plural Ramoses)

1. A surname from Spanish.
   • 2020 April 20, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court says unanimous jury verdicts required in state criminal trials for serious offenses”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 2 June 2021:

     The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] In court, a lawyer for Louisiana argued that if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of Ramos the ruling could apply to some 32,000 people that are currently serving time for serious crimes because thousands of petitioners would come to the court demanding relief.

2. A municipality of Tarlac, Philippines.

Meronyms

• barangays of Ramos, Tarlac

  • Coral-Iloco
  • Guiteb
  • Pance
  • Poblacion Center
  • Poblacion North
  • Poblacion South
  • San Juan
  • San Raymundo
  • Toledo

Derived terms

• Cogon Ramos
• Ramos-Arroyo syndrome
• Ramos gin fizz

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ramos is the 76^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 263464 individuals. Ramos is most common among Hispanic/Latino (86.79%) individuals.

See also

• city and municipalities of Tarlac

  • Anao
  • Bamban
  • Camiling
  • Capas
  • Concepcion
  • Gerona
  • La Paz
  • Mayantoc
  • Moncada
  • Paniqui
  • Pura
  • Ramos
  • San Clemente
  • San Jose
  • San Manuel
  • Santa Ignacia
  • Tarlac City
  • Victoria

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Ramos

1. plural of Ramo

Ilocano

Etymology

From Spanish Ramos, from ramos, plural of ramo (“branch”). Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾamos/ [ˈɾɐ.mos]
• Hyphenation: Ra‧mos

Proper noun

Ramos

1. a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Ramos, common on most Ilocano-speaking areas

Pangasinan

Etymology

From Spanish Ramos, from ramos, plural of ramo (“branch”). Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Ra‧mos

Proper noun

Ramos

1. a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Ramos
2. Ramos (a municipality of Tarlac, Philippines)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.mus/ [ˈhɐ̃.mus]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.mus/ [ˈhɐ̃.mus]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.muʃ/ [ˈχɐ̃.muʃ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ.muʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ.muʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁa.muʃ/

• Hyphenation: Ra‧mos
• Homophone: ramos

Proper noun

Ramos ?

1. a surname

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “branches”, from ramo (“branch”), from Latin rāmus (“branch”), probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈramos/ [ˈra.mos]
• Rhymes: -amos
• Syllabification: Ra‧mos

Proper noun

Ramos m or f by sense

1. a surname

Derived terms

• de Pascuas a Ramos

Further reading

• “Ramos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Ramos, from ramos, plural of ramo (“branch”). Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾamos/ [ˈɾaː.mos]
• Rhymes: -amos
• Syllabification: Ra‧mos

Proper noun

Ramos (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋᜓᜐ᜔)

1. a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Ramos

   Fidel Valdez Ramos ― Fidel Ramos (11th President of the Philippines)

2. Ramos (a municipality of Tarlac, Philippines)

Anagrams

• Marso