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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : presumably a patronymic from a Middle English survival of Old English Ramm ‘ram’ or Hrafn ‘raven’ as a personal name.
  • Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad : probably from the personal name Ram and the English suffix -son.

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