Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Román
Román is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Spanish and Galician.
Original LatinRomanus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Román comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Romão, from Latin Romanus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Román’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Román has a conventional equivalent in the English form Roman. In Galician usage, Román has a conventional equivalent in the French form Romain. In Galician usage, Román continues an earlier form in Romanus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Román has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Román comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Román
- Román TorresPanamanian footballerborn 1986
- Roman AdamovRussian football playerborn 1982
- Román GonzálezNicaraguan boxerborn 1987
- Román MartínezArgentine footballerborn 1983
- Román GolobartSpanish footballerborn 1992
- Román GonzálezArgentine basketball player (born 1978)
- Román VegaArgentine footballerborn 2004
- Román RodríguezCanarian politicianborn 1956
- Román EscolanoSpanish politicianborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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“inhabitant of Gaeta”
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Štefan
“crown”
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Štěpán
“crown”
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Kristján
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Kasjan
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