Family name origins & meanings
- Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) : Hindu name from Sanskrit rāma ‘pleasing’, ‘charming’ (name of an incarnation of Vishnu; see Ram) + čandra ‘shining’, ‘moon’ (see Chandra), + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.