Given name & surname

Romão

Romão is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

In Portuguese use, Romão shares an earlier linguistic root with Roman. An origin associated with Roman is Late Latin.

Explained through its name family

How it developed

From Old Galician-Portuguese romão, from Latin Rōmānus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Romão’s family of names

Romão shares a linguistic root with Roman. In Portuguese usage, Romão has a related form in Romaõ. In Portuguese usage, Romão has a conventional equivalent in the English form Roman.

Walk Romão’s family in the name graph

RomãoRomaoRománRomaõRomanRomeoRomeRoméoRomà

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Romão has relatives in 4 languages.

3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 5

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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