Ramirez: A Surname History (Paperback)

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Ramírez: A Surname History — Volume 32 of The Surname Histories Series. The famous counsel — Visigothic ragin (counsel) + mari/meri (famous), from the name of the kings Ramiro I and Ramiro II of Asturias. RAMIREZ stands No. 28 in the 2010 U.S. Census with 557,423 bearers — up from No. 42 in 2000 (388,987), a +43.3% rise in a single decade, one of the fastest climbs into the American top thirty — sitting directly behind Clark at #27 and completing the series’ eight-book running echo (Lee #21 → Pérez #22 → Thompson #23 → White #24 → Harris #25 → Sánchez #26 → Clark #27 → Ramírez #28). The signature story is Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante” (1818–1879) — La Reforma’s fiercest pen, from his 1844 “no God” thesis to his cabinet service under Juárez — told honestly and honored in prose, with no portrait plate; a gallery of bearers runs from Sergio Ramírez and Ariel Ramírez to Manny Ramírez and Sara Ramírez; three heraldic plates — the Castilian tree-and-lion, the Arellano fleur-de-lis quartering, and the blank honest shield, drawn programmatically from published blazons — show why no single coat of arms belongs to a surname; and a gazetteer of Ramírez places maps Ramírez TX, Los Ramírez in Querétaro, and General Ramírez in Entre Ríos.