as a Last Name
- 755
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Rasmus
Meaning & Origins
Danish, North German, and Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Erasmus, Latin form of Greek Erasmos, a derivative of erān ‘to love’. St. Erasmos (died 303) was a bishop of Formia in Campania, who was martyred under Diocletian. However, in northern Europe from the 16th century onwards, the name was more often selected in honor of the great Renaissance Dutch humanist scholar and teacher Erasmus Roterodamus (1469–1536).
| 29,222nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 755
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Rasmus per capita
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