Given name & surname
Raimundo
“a wise protector”
Raimundo is a form of Raymond. One German interpretation is “a wise protector.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Raimundo is a form of Raymond. One German interpretation is “a wise protector.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Raimundo is a form of Raymond. An origin associated with Raymond is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Reimundo, from Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund, from Proto-Germanic *Raginamunduz, built from Proto-Germanic *raginą (“advice”) + *mundō (“protection”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Raimundo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 288
- 288 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,176 as a first name in 2020; 438 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Raimundo’s family of names
In Asturian usage, Raimundo has a diminutive in Mundo. Raimundo shares a linguistic root with Raymond. In Portuguese usage, Raimundo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ramon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Raimundo has relatives in 7 languages.
10 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- RamonEnglish
- Raymundequivalent
- Raimondoequivalent
- Raimundequivalent
- Rajmondequivalent
- RamãoPortuguese
- RajmundPolish
- Ramónalso known as · Spanish
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People named Raimundo
- Raimundo OrsiArgentine-Italian footballer (1901-1986)
- Raimundo PereiraPresident unterine of Guinea-Bissauborn 1956
- Raimundo Fernández-VillaverdeSpanish politician (1848–1905)
- Raimundo de Madrazo y GarretaSpanish painter (1841-1920)
- Raimundo Andueza PalacioPresident of Venezuela (1846-1900)
- Raimundo RolónPresident of Paraguay (1903-1981)
- Raimundo InfanteChilean footballer (1928-1986)
- Raimundo LezamaSpanish footballer (1922–2007)
- Raimundo CorreiaBrazilian writer and judge (1859-1911)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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