Roman

given name · Latin script

Meaning: (i) Person from Rome or a pilgrim to Rome

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/roman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Roman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 79(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 220
  • USUnited States1 in 4.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000,000 named Роман, est.

#87 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
497 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 79 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RomanLatin(measured from records)
РоманCyrillic(measured from records)
ՌոմանArmenian(measured from records)
რომანGeorgian(measured from records)
ΡομανGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Роман in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

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)

(i) Person from Rome or a pilgrim to Rome. (ii) From the Latin personal name Romanus, meaning 'person from Rome'.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Roman 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.

Where Roman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#37≈1,000,000 est.≈1 in 136#24Роман267
UA Ukraine#37≈350,000 est.≈1 in 127listedРоман162
PL Poland#72174,3801 in 220175KRoman191
CZ Czechia#27135,5081 in 79136KRoman178
US United States#79279,6691 in 4.2K79KRoman497
MD Moldova#14215,8181 in 21316KRoman57

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; e-services.md — living population register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Roman is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Róman, Román, RomÃn, Rō̜mān, Romań

  • Estonian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Russia, India

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Röman, Román, Romañ, Rõmän, Rõmãn

  • Norwegian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Russia

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Román

  • Lao given name51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Chile, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written รอหมาน, Román, ร่อหมาน, โรมัน, หร้อหมาน

  • Hindi given name122 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla

    Also written Raman, Ramana, Ramini, Ramon, Rumon

  • Lithuanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Román, Röman

95 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Roman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Jacob ben Isaac Roman, Arabic-Turkish-Hebrew dictionary author

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • From Latin R6mdnus ‘Roman’. This was the baptismal name of St Boris.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, Upright, as opposed to italic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Roman är ett latinskt namn bildat till Romanus ’romare’, vanligt i Östeuropa. En känd namnbärare var Roman den store (ca 1152–1205), storfurste av Kiev. En fransk form är Romain.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Romano

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Roman Jakobson, b. 1896Romain Gary, b. 1914Roman Polanski, b. 1933Roman Abramovich, b. 1966Roman Weidenfeller, b. 1980Roman Pavlyuchenko, b. 1981Roman Shirokov, b. 1981Roman Adamov, b. 1982Isco, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Roman,Hi Roman, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 142 sources across 66 countries.

Official registers attesting Roman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—175K#41
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026174K#41
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—136K#37
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202079K#665
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—68K#43
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—16K#75
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20256.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020903#665

Reference works 11

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Roman come from?
(i) Person from Rome or a pilgrim to Rome. (ii) From the Latin personal name Romanus, meaning 'person from Rome'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Roman a male or female name?
Roman is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Roman have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Роман in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Roman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roman is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 79 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Roman mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) Person from Rome or a pilgrim to Rome.
What are other forms of the name Roman?
In the etymology graph, Romain, Romeo and Romeu are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Roman?
A machine transcription gives /roman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
How common is the name Roman?
In Poland, the national register counted 174,380 people named Roman in 2026, about 1 in 220 residents.
How common is Roman compared with other names?
In Russia, Roman is the 37th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Roman” — the 37th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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