Rotunda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A round building, usually small, often with a dome
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɹoʊˈtʌndə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Rotunda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 696K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- UAUkraine≈1 in 6.1Mas Ротунда
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 Rotunda 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 696K (inferred from the name graph)
478 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ротунда in 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)A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rotunda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 478 | 1 in 696K | 495 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Ротунда | 8 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Rotunda | 2 |
478 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Rotunda 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.
In Cebuano, a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, rotunda (round building, usually small, often with a dome)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, rotunda (Gothic typeface used in early printed books)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, feminine singular of rotundo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of rotund
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)- Ronald Rotundab. 1945USAmerican legal scholar
- Lawrence Rotundab. 1958USAmerican professional wrestler
- Kyndra Rotundab. 1974USAmerican lawyer
- Bray Wyattb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler (1987–2023)
- Taylor Rotundab. 1990USAmerican professional wrestler (born 1990)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 495 | #41,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 478 | #44,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 472 | #48,348 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #286,565 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Rotunda mean, and where does it come from?
- A round building, usually small, often with a dome. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rotunda?
- It depends on the language: in English /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ɾotuⁿɗa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Rotunda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 478 people named Rotunda, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rotunda most common?
- Rotunda is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 696 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rotunda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 478 people named Rotunda in 2010, about 1 in 696 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rotundaThe 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, “Rotunda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.