Ramsden
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ramsden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person from one of various English places named Ramsden; 'valley where wild garlic grows'.
- GYGuyana1 in 54K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 208K
- NONorway1 in 547K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
1,598 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from one of various English places named Ramsden; 'valley where wild garlic grows'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramsden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,598 | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | Ramsden | 3 |
| ES Spain | 60 | 1 in 834K | 60 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
1,598 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ramsden is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from Ramsden (Essex, Oxfordshire); first attested Roger de Rammesden 1195 FFL
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Old English; the ram's valley
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jesse Ramsdenb. 1735GBBritish engraver and instrument maker
- John Charles Ramsdenb. 1788GBBritish politician (1788-1836)
- Sir John Ramsden, 5th Baronetb. 1831GBBritish politician (1831-1914)
- Ernest Ramsdenb. 1882GBEnglish footballer (1882-1951)
- Barney Ramsdenb. 1917GBEnglish footballer (1917-1990)
- James Ramsdenb. 1923GBBritish politician (1923-2020)
- John Ramsdenb. 1947GBUK historian of the Conservative Party
- Anne Ramsdenb. 1952CACanadian multi-disciplinary visual artist (born 1952)
- Simon Ramsdenb. 1981GBEnglish footballer (born 1981)
- Denise Ramsdenb. 1990CACanadian racing cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,745 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #39,410 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 60 | #39,093 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 14 | #611 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,660 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,775 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ramsden mean, and where does it come from?
- person from one of various English places named Ramsden; 'valley where wild garlic grows' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ramsden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Ramsden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramsden.
- Where is Ramsden most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ramsden is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ramsden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,598 people named Ramsden in 2010, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ramsden?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramsdenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ramsden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.