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The RAMIREZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 388,987 42 0.144 1,442
United States (1880 census) 732 7111 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +388255 +7069 +0.143 +1427
Other Countries
Australia 476 3359 0.003 29
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RAMIREZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 130,514 11 0.385 3,853
Texas 92,397 14 0.443 4,431
Florida 24,579 60 0.154 1,538
Illinois 17,241 46 0.139 1,388
New York 15,520 72 0.082 818
Top States for RAMIREZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 92,397 14 0.443 4,431
California 130,514 11 0.385 3,853
Arizona 14,471 19 0.282 2,821
Nevada 5,449 22 0.273 2,727
New Mexico 4,440 34 0.244 2,441

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RAMIREZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAMIREZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAMIREZ in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAMIREZ by picking someone at random in Texas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAMIREZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAMIREZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RAMIREZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RAMIREZ in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 364,364 93.67
White (Caucasian) 17,115 4.4
Asian/Pacific 3,773 0.97
Black/African American 1,128 0.29
Mixed Race 1,556 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 1,050 0.27

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RAMIREZ surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RAMIREZ in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RAMIREZ.

Similar names to RAMIREZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAMIREZ.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RAMIREZ

The following words are slight variants of RAMIREZ that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.