as a First Name
Sanskrit: ‘pleasing’. Three famous bearers of the name are known: Parasurama ‘Rama of the axe’, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu; Balarama ‘the strong Rama’, elder brother of Krishna and eighth incarnation of Vishnu; and above all Ramachandra, seventh incarnation of Vishnu, whose story is told in the Ramayana.
| 4,170th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,541
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Rama per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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14%
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