Ramos Surname Meaning & Origin (Spanish)

Meaning and formation

Ramos means “branches” in Spanish. The surname comes from ramos, the plural of ramo, ultimately from Latin rāmus, and was borrowed into Tagalog. It retains the final s that marks the Spanish plural. Philippine bearers include Fidel V. Ramos, president from 1992 to 1998, and his father Narciso Ramos. Narciso worked as a journalist, lawyer and diplomat and served in the Philippine legislature. Fidel had a military career before entering the national cabinet and the presidency.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ˈɾamos/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Spanish: /ˈramos/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Ramos has 54 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts