Ramona

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Ramona is a feminine given name .

Origin and meaning

Ramona is the feminine form of the Spanish name Ramón , which is derived from the German first name Raimund . This is made up of the Germanic word for “advice, decision” ( ragin ) and the old high German word for “protection” ( munt ).

Well-known namesake

Song title

See Ramona (song) .

Book title

Ramona is the name of a novel by the American writer Helen Hunt Jackson . The work on the discrimination of Indians, published in 1884, is particularly popular in southern California , the area of ​​the plot, and was made into four films in Hollywood alone (1910, 1916, 1928 and 1936; a fifth was made in Mexico in 1946), but of which only the 1928 version by director Edwin Carewe was shown in German cinemas.