Given name & surname · also Spanish
Romualdo
Romualdo is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and 1 other language.
Original SpanishRumaldo
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Romualdo comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Romualdo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 390
- 390 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 12 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,694 as a first name in 2020; 650 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.
Romualdo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Romualdo has a feminine form in ROMUALDA. In Spanish usage, Romualdo has a related form in RUMALDO. In Portuguese usage, Romualdo has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form ROMUALD.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Romualdo has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Romualdo
- Romualdfounder of the Camaldolese order951–1027
- Romualdo Arppi FilhoBrazilian association football referee (1939–2023)
- Romuald II of BeneventoItalian Duke
- Romuald I of BeneventoItalian duke630–687
- Romuald GuarnaItalian archbishop1115–1181
- Romualdo Ghiglionegymnast (1891–1940)
- Romualdo MarencoItalian composer (1841–1907)
- Romualdo MoroUruguayan footballer (1929-2001)
- Romualdo Palacio GonzálezSpanish general and governor of Puerto Rico (1827-1907)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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