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

Ramachandran, 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 Ramachandran surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Ramachandran in America

Ramachandran is the 14409th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Ramachandran surname appeared 2,074 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 Ramachandran.

We can also compare 2010 data for Ramachandran 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 Ramachandran

The surname Ramachandran originated in India, specifically in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "Rama" and "Chandra," which together mean "the moon god." The name dates back to the 8th century CE and is believed to have been derived from the ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

In ancient India, surnames were often derived from various sources, including occupations, personal traits, or religious affiliations. The name Ramachandran was likely given to individuals or families who were devotees of Lord Rama or had a special connection to the lunar deity.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Ramachandran can be found in the inscriptions of the Chola Dynasty, which ruled over parts of southern India between the 9th and 13th centuries CE. These inscriptions mention individuals with the name Ramachandran serving as officials and administrators in the Chola court.

Over the centuries, the name Ramachandran has been associated with several notable figures. One of the most renowned was Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his groundbreaking work on the scattering of light. He was born in 1888 in Trichinopoly (now Tiruchirappalli), Tamil Nadu, and passed away in 1970.

Another prominent individual with the surname Ramachandran was C. V. Raman Pillai, an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress in 1936. He was born in 1878 in Thrissur, Kerala, and died in 1958.

In the field of mathematics, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, known as Srinivasa Ramanujan, was a self-taught genius who made significant contributions to the theory of numbers. He was born in 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu, and passed away in 1920 at a young age.

The name Ramachandran has also been associated with the arts and literature. One notable figure is the renowned Indian novelist and playwright R. Ramachandran, who was born in 1922 in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, and is known for his works exploring social and political themes.

In the field of science, the name Ramachandran is closely associated with the Indian-American structural biologist G. N. Ramachandran, who made pioneering contributions to the study of protein structure. He was born in 1922 in Ernakulam, Kerala, and passed away in 2001.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Ramachandran

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

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 Ramachandran 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 Ramachandran 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 Ramachandran was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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