Ramon
A Latin name that reached Poland through Spanish, meaning roughly "wise protector". Here it stays rare: about 133 men carry it, and most people have never met one.
Ramon Pronunciation
Ramon is pronounced RAH-mon (/ˈramɔn/).
What Ramon means
Where Ramon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ramón is the Spanish form of a name that reached the language through Latin, as Raimundus. The two old parts behind it mean counsel and protection, which is why people gloss it today as wise protector. That sense of guarding through good advice has followed the name for centuries.
Spain gave the name saints and scholars. Ramón Nonato, the thirteenth-century patron of midwives, still holds his feast on 31 August. Ramon Llull wrote philosophy in Catalan when few dared. Later came Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Ramón Gómez de la Serna, both fixtures of Spanish letters.
In Poland the name stays foreign, and that is part of its appeal. A Ramon on a class register reads as Spanish at once. The meaning holds wherever it lands: counsel-protection, a wise protector.
How many people are named Ramon
1 in 160498 men in Poland is named Ramon. 133 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2883 among male names.
Ramon as a middle name
Ramon is a first name for 133 men in Poland and a middle name for another 111, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 670th, between Eugene (111) and Romeo (111).
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#668 Egon111
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#669 Eugene111
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#670 Ramon111
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#671 Romeo111
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#672 Wojtek111