Entry № 8512 · Spanish origin

Ramona Ramona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rah-MOH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Wise protector"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "wise protector".

Ramona is the Spanish feminine of Ramón (Raymond) — from the Germanic Raginmund, composed of ragin (counsel) and mund (protection) — meaning "wise protector."

Today Ramona sits in the U.S. top 500 and is rising fast.

Wise protector. Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby.

The name in its native script.

Ramona
Transliteration
Ramona
Pronunciation
/ rəˈmoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ramona stands.

Ramona does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ramonas before her.

Real people
Ramona Singer
American TV personality.
born 1956
In fiction
Ramona Quimby
Heroine of Beverly Cleary's children's series.
1955 onward
Ramona Flowers
Heroine of Scott Pilgrim.
2004 comics

Names connected to Ramona.

The number behind Ramona.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ramona reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.