Rama

Family name origins & meanings

• Indian (southern states) : variant of Ram.
• Portuguese, Galician, and Catalan : habitational name from any of the places called Rama in Portugal (Guimarães), Galicia (A Coruña) and Catalonia (Girona).
• Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese : topographic name from rama ‘branch’.
• Italian : topographic name from dialect rama ‘branch’ (see Ramo).