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I don't know if this is relevant, but linguistically I see
DeRamus < de Ramus < "of/from Remus?"

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De is French for "of" or "from."

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Alternatively, ramus is Latin for "branch" and is the root of the Spanish surname, Ramos.

Your information is incorrect. The surname "DERAMUS" originated in HOLLAND and were farmers during religious persecution they were pushed to Northern France and intermarried with the FRENCH HUGERNOTS,who were also farmers. Together theyturned the NORTHERN ROCKY ROUGH TERANE into fertile farm land. Once Southern France realized this was now a productive area, they pushed the Farmers out. The only way them to exit was to steal away to DUBLIN IRELAND where they acquired jobs on steamer ships to the United States. There is NO ITALIAN BLOOD LINE IN THE ORIGINAL DERAMUS LINEAGE. After settling in the US, Many intermarried with Italians, who were also migrating and Native Amerian's mostly Cherokee, Because the were farmers also. They lived in houses had fences, grew crops, raised livestock traded in towns, were NOT RAIDERS as most tribes were. Settling primarily in the Carolina's, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas. You will find that a tremendous amount of information about the DeRamus Family, (NEVER SPELLED WITH A SMALL R AlWAY CAPITAL AND ONE WORD, NO SEPARATION). INCLUDING GENEOLOGY is grossly misrepresented. Doing an injustice to the existing and future generations by creating a record they actually know nothing about, so they attach hear-say AND THEN AS A LAST RESORT, THEY GUESS. I have been married to my Italian wife for 49 years. Her family immigrated directly from Italy.

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Jimmie DeRamus
HISTORY CHANNELS "CAJUN PAWN STARS"
SILVER DOLLAR PAWN & JEWELRY
Alexandria Louisiana

I am not sure if this thread is still active since the last entry was in 2001.
My last name is DeRamus (pronounced like Da-ray-mus) and I started researching
the genealogy of my family and while searching the last name, a lady from
Choctaw, Oklahoma contacted me and said she had the genealogy starting from a man named
Joseph Funderburk DeRamus.
His family were French, They fled France during the time when the families who had converted
from the Roman Catholic Church to Protestants and were being persecuted by the Catholics and
the King of France.
The Protestants were given a derogative name of Huguenots, and during this time, the King
gave orders to kill all the Huguenots. Many were killed but some fled to countries in Europe,
Africa and Asia. Joseph's ancestors fled to Switzerland, where Joseph was born. When he decided
to immigrate to America, he took a ship to South Carolina, in the Orangeburg District. He met
and later married Ann Phund. They were married by an Anglican Minister named Giessendanner (not sure
of the spelling.
He was born in Switzerland in a range between 1702-1724 (the year is not sure, because of so many
different accounts of his life. He died in 1802, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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This account was given to me and the exact account is not sure. I have searched for his parents name
in France and Switzerland with no luck. If this helps, then I have accomplished a good deed.

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Thank You Very Much,
Chaplain Rodger D. DeRamus

As Mike C says, there are few English language books on the meaning of Japanese names. One which I can recommend to you, though (if you can find a copy of it somewhere) is *Shadowings* by Lafcadio Hearn -- the writer who pretty much introduced 19th century Japan to the western world. This book of Hearn's observations on Japanese culture was first published in 1900, and contains a very informative section on Japanese female names, with names lists and meanings.

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-- Nanaea

Meaning of Japanese names

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Your best bet is to look up the elements of the name in a Japanese-English dictionary, eg https://jisho.org/

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