Ramiro

Spanish and Portuguese form of Ramirus, earlier Ranimirus, a Latinized Visigothic name built from either the Gothic element rana, meaning “wedge,” or perhaps ragin, meaning “law,” “decree,” or “responsibility,” combined with mers, “famous.” Saint Ramirus was a 6th-century prior of the Saint Claudius Monastery in León who, along with several others, was executed by Arian Visigoths opposed to orthodox Christianity. The name was later borne by kings of León, Asturias, and Aragon.

Ramiro moved from #889 to #936 for boys between 2014 and 2016. Its highest annual birth count came in 2001, with 528 births.