Where the Ramirez name comes from

Ramirez is son of Ramiro, and the name it is built on is not Spanish underneath but Germanic. Ramiro is the latinised form of the Gothic given name Ranamir, which came into Spain and Portugal with the Visigoths and stayed there. In Spanish the surname carries an acute accent on the i, which English writing usually drops. It is the 28th most common surname in Spain, the 9th in Mexico and the 42nd in the United States.