Romaño
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romaño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish romano, from Latin rōmānus. Cognate with Roman.
- ARArgentina1 in 988(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.1K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- 1 in 988 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Romano in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Spanishromano(measured from records)
- Latinrōmānus(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish romano, from Latin rōmānus. Cognate with Roman.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romaño counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #13 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 5 | Romano | 203 |
| AR Argentina | #144 | 46,041 | 1 in 988 | 46K | Romano | 120 |
| US United States | — | 29,018 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Romano | 260 |
| PH Philippines | #771 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Romano | 54 |
| BR Brazil | #433 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 1.4K | Romano | 163 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,022 | 1 in 4.2K | 2K | Romano | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | #218 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Romano | 48 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Romaño mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish romano, from Latin rōmānus. Cognate with Roman. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Romaño have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Romaño in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romano.
- Where is Romaño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romaño is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 988 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romaño?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 46,041 people named Romaño, about 1 in 988 residents.
- How common is Romaño compared with other names?
- In Italy, Romaño is the 13th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roma%C3%B1oThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romaño” — the 13th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.