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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad : from the Hindu personal name Ramrup ‘manifestation of Rama’, from Sanskrit rāma ‘pleasing’, name of an incarnation of the god Vishnu, + rūpa ‘form’, ‘manifestation’.

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