Romain
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr Romeyn or romeyn ‘a Roman’; first attested Romanus le corduaner 1221 Cur (Yorkshire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɔmɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Romain is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 382(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 376 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from OFr Romeyn or romeyn ‘a Roman’; first attested Romanus le corduaner 1221 Cur (Yorkshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #54 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | 193K | Romain | 443 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Romain | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #168 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | Romain | 148 |
| CM Cameroon | #382 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Romain | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | #376 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 39 | Romain | 114 |
| LU Luxembourg | #2 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 376 | — | Romain | 82 |
| US United States | — | 1,205 | 1 in 276K | 3.2K | Romain | 262 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Romain 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.
From the Late Latin personal name ROmdnus ‘Roman’. Feminine form: Romaine.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, of the city of Rome; Roman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Caractère typographique droit, perpendiculaire, employé pour la partie courante d’un livre. Il fut inventé en Italie par Jenson.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, Du latin Romanus, « Romain »; porté par plusieurs saints Romain.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du nom latin Rōmānus, dérivé de Rōma « Rome ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Romain Rollandb. 1866FRFrench author (1866-1944)
- Romain Garyb. 1914FRFrench writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
- Jacques Brelb. 1929BEnot in their usual nameBelgian singer (1929–1978)
- Don Davisb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer, conductor, orchestrator and trombonist
- Romain Durisb. 1974FRFrench actor (born 1974)
- Romain Gavrasb. 1981FRFrench filmmaker (born 1981)
- Romain Grosjeanb. 1986CHFrench and Swiss racing driver
- Romain Ghanem Saïssb. 1990FRMoroccan association football player
- Sébastien Hallerb. 1994FRnot in their usual nameIvorian-French footballer (born 1994)
- Romain Del Castillob. 1996FRFrench association football player
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)
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 80 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 193K | #402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #10,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 84 | #10,870 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Romain mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Romeyn or romeyn ‘a Roman’; first attested Romanus le corduaner 1221 Cur (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Romain?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɔmɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Romain have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 178 thousand people named Romain in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romain.
- Is Romain a male or female name?
- Romain 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.
- What are other forms of the name Romain?
- In the etymology graph, Roman, Romeo and Romeu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Romain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,205 people named Romain in 2020, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
- How common is Romain compared with other names?
- In France, Romain is the 54th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romainThe 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, “Romain” — the 54th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.