Find out how popular the last name Páramo is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Páramo.

Páramo, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Páramo surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Páramo in America

Páramo is the 9691st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Páramo surname appeared 3,348 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Páramo.

We can also compare 2010 data for Páramo to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Páramo

The surname Paramo has its origins in the Spanish language and can be traced back to the 16th century, when it was primarily found in the regions of Castile and Aragon in Spain. The name is believed to be derived from the Spanish word "paramo," which means a bleak, treeless plateau or moorland, suggesting that the earliest bearers of this surname may have resided in such a geographical area.

One of the earliest known references to the surname Paramo can be found in the records of the Spanish Inquisition, where a certain Francisco Paramo was mentioned in 1572 as a resident of Seville. Another early recorded instance is from the town of Calatayud in Aragon, where a family by the name of Paramo was documented in the local parish records dating back to the late 16th century.

In the 17th century, the surname Paramo began to spread beyond Spain, particularly to the Spanish colonies in the Americas. One notable individual bearing this name was Pedro de Paramo, a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Mexico in the 1520s and later became an influential landowner in the region of Michoacán.

During the 18th century, the Paramo surname gained prominence in various parts of Spain and its territories. Juan Paramo y Somoza (1710-1784), a Spanish jurist and author from Galicia, wrote several influential works on legal theory and philosophy. Another notable figure was Fray José Paramo (1735-1802), a Franciscan friar and historian from Guanajuato, Mexico, who authored a comprehensive history of the Franciscan order in the New World.

In the 19th century, the Paramo surname continued to appear in various historical records and documents. One prominent individual was Mariano Paramo y Muñoz (1825-1888), a Spanish politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Justice under the reign of King Alfonso XII.

As the Paramo surname spread throughout the Spanish-speaking world, it also found its way to other regions, such as the Philippines, which was a Spanish colony until the late 19th century. One notable bearer of the name from this era was Tomás Paramo (1858-1942), a Filipino lawyer and revolutionary who actively participated in the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Páramo

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Páramo.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Páramo was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Páramo has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Páramo was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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