Given name & surname · also Ukrainian
Romas
Romas is a surname from Ukrainian, ultimately from Catalan. It is used in English and Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Romas comes from Ukrainian, and ultimately from Catalan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ukrainian Ромась, from Greek Ρώμας, from Catalan Romàs.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Romas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 55 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 8 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 1973. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 218 as a first name in 2020; 760 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.
Romas’s family of names
In Greek usage, Romas as a surname is a transliteration of Ρόμας.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Romas
- Romas UbartasLithuanian discus throwerborn 1960
- Romas KalantaLithuanian student, Soviet dissident (1953–1972)
- Romas KirveliavičiusAustrian handball playerborn 1988
- Romas ZabarauskasLithuanian filmmaker, activist, screenwriterborn 1990
- Romas MažeikisLithuanian footballerborn 1964
- Romas DresslerGerman footballerborn 1987
- Romas LileikisLithuanian writer, musician and film directorborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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