Romanov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Russian dynasty
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/rɐmanəf/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from романов
Romanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- EEEstonia1 in 3K(measured from records)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 12K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 14K
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 Romanov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #922 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Романов, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Романов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Romanow in PL Poland.
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)Russian dynasty
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Romanov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #67 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Романов | 175 |
| UA Ukraine | #197 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Романов | 54 |
| BY Belarus | #245 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Романов | 31 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #347 | 980as Романов | 1 in 19K | 3.9K | Романов | 41 |
| PL Poland | — | 915as Romaniv | 1 in 42K | 866 | Romanow | 32 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Романов | 15 |
| EE Estonia | #718 | 406 | 1 in 3K | 406 | Romanov | 23 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michael I of Russiab. 1596RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1613–1645)
- Feodor III of Russiab. 1661RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1676–1682)
- Ivan V of Russiab. 1666RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (lived 1666-1696)
- Peter II of Russiab. 1715RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia (1715-1730)
- Paul I of Russiab. 1754RUnot in their usual nameThe ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- Alexander I of Russiab. 1777RUnot in their usual nameThe tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
- Nicholas I of Russiab. 1796RUnot in their usual nameThe 11th Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855 (lived 1796-1855)
- Alexander III of Russiab. 1845RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russiab. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian general (1856-1929); son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich the Elder and Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg
- Nicholas II of Russiab. 1868RUnot in their usual name14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 866 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 866 | #3,560 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 406 | #93 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 406 | #93 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 19 | #5,947 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #206,036 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Romanov mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian dynasty Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Romanov?
- In Russian /rɐmanəf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Romanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Романов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Romanov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romanov is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romanov?
- In Estonia, the national register counted 406 people named Romanov, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Romanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Romanov is the 67th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romanovThe 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, “Romanov” — the 67th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.