Romer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ME romere ‘one who had made the pilgrimage to Rome’; first attested Cristiana la Romere 1274 RH (Sf)

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

Romer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 94Kas Roemer
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 10K

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 Romer 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈25,000 people, est.

Sources
298 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Roemer in NL Netherlands, CD Congo - Kinshasa and Römer in DE Germany.

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)

ME romere ‘one who had made the pilgrimage to Rome’; first attested Cristiana la Romere 1274 RH (Sf)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Romer 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 Romer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈25,000 est.≈1 in 56K—Romer5
DE Germany#356≈10,000 est.≈1 in 7.9K—Römer135
US United States—3,551as Roemer1 in 94K3.6KRomer298
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 34K—Roemer1
DK Denmark—1,393as Rømer1 in 4.2K1.4K—2
CH Switzerland#7978101 in 10K810Romer42
NL Netherlands—4781 in 36K639Roemer43

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Romer is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Römer, Rômer, Řômêř, Rõmer, Rómer

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Römer, Rómer

  • Russian surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Ремер, Ромер, Roemer, Remer, Рёмер

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Römer, Rõmer, Ромер, Rómer

  • Chinese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Römer, Rõmēr, Rómer, Rmer, Romers

56 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)

Romer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)

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

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, a Roman (native or resident of the Roman Empire)

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

  • In Danish, a Roman (a person the Roman Empire)

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

  • In Swedish, indefinite plural of rom

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

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)

1850190019502000Jan Romer, b. 1869Eugeniusz Romer, b. 1871Zofia Romer, b. 1885Alfred Sherwood Romer, b. 1894Tadeusz Romer, b. 1894Roy Romer, b. 1928Paul M. Romer, b. 1955Christina Romer, b. 1958David Romer, b. 1958Dan Romer, b. 1983

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 51 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Romer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.5K#9,407
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.1K#9,585
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.1K#9,965
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024810#1,502
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200789#20,803
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—49#10,721
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Romer mean, and where does it come from?
ME romere ‘one who had made the pilgrimage to Rome’; first attested Cristiana la Romere 1274 RH (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Romer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Romer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romer.
How common is the name Romer?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 810 people named Romer in 2024, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Romer compared with other names?
In Germany, Romer is the 356th most common surname of 765,306 surnames 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, “Romer” — the 356th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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