Romanus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: people, lang.. South Asia, Near East,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑmənəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Romanus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 76K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
228 people
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
people, lang.. South Asia, Near East,
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romanus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 228 | 1 in 76K | 223 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 152 | Romanus | 29 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
228 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Romanus is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Romany, Roman! [Gypsy]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Europe, USA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, pope
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Romanus of Caesareab. 201ILSyrian saint
- Romanus of Condatb. 390FRChristian saint, monk and hermit
- Romanos the Melodistb. 490SYnot in their usual nameGreek hymnographer
- Romanos I Lekapenosb. 870TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944
- Romanos IIb. 938TRnot in their usual name10th century Byzantine Emperor
- Romanos III Argyrosb. 968TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
- Romanos IV Diogenesb. 1030TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
- Romanus Weichleinb. 1652ATAustrian composer (1652-1706)
- Roman Fischerb. 1915ATnot in their usual nameAustrian fencer
- Romanos Alyfantisb. 1986GRnot in their usual nameswimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 139 | #128,411 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #112,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #117,599 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Romanus mean, and where does it come from?
- people, lang.. South Asia, Near East, Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Romanus?
- In the etymology graph, Roman, Romain and Romeo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Romanus?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑmənəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Romanus a male or female name?
- Romanus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Romanus have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 228 people named Romanus, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Romanus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romanus is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romanus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 228 people named Romanus, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romanusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romanus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.