Rama Family History
Rama Name Meaning
Portuguese Galician and Catalan: habitational name from any of the places called Rama in Portugal (Guimarães) and Spain (in A Coruña Galicia and in Girona Catalonia). Spanish Galician and Portuguese: topographic name from rama ‘branch’. Albanian: from Ramë (definite form Rama) a short form of the Muslim personal name Ramadan and its Albanian variant Ramazan. Italian: topographic name from rama ‘branch’ a dialect form of ramo. Finnish (Rämä): probably from an old vernacular form of the Latin personal name Remigius (see Remy compare Remes ) or possibly from the Karelian personal name Rema from the Russian Orthodox name Rem from Efrem (see Ephraim ). Alternatively a nickname from rämä ‘reckless loud-mouthed’. Recorded as a hereditary surname in southeastern Finland since the 16th century. Indian (southern states): from a personal name a variant of Ram . — Note: Since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022