Given name & surname
Romanus
“Rome”·“-an”
Romanus is a masculine given name. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Romanus is built from elements meaning “Rome” and “-an”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1892. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Romanus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 142 as a first name in 2020; 139 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Romanus’s family of names
In Latin usage, Romanus has a later derivative in Romain. Romanus has a related form in Roman. In Latin usage, Romanus has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Roman.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Romanus has relatives in 8 languages.
8 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Romanoequivalent
- Romainderivative · French
- Romaanderivative · Dutch
- Romusequivalent
- Романequivalent
- ⲣⲱⲙⲁⲛⲟⲥborrowing · Coptic
- רומנוסderivative · Hebrew
- Romándescendant · Galician
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People named Romanus
- Romanos IV DiogenesByzantine emperor1030–1072
- Romanos I LekapenosByzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944870–948
- Romanos III ArgyrosByzantine emperor968–1034
- Romanos II10th century Byzantine Emperor938–963
- Romanus of CaesareaSyrian saint201–303
- Romanusexarch of Ravenna600–590
- Romanus OstiariusRoman Christian martyr and saint (died c.258)200–258
- Romanus WeichleinAustrian composer (1652-1706)
- Romanos Alyfantisswimmerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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