Romanelli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Samuel Aaron Romanelli, Italian poet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/romaneʎi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Romanelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 53K
- ARArgentina1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,838 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Samuel Aaron Romanelli, Italian poet
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world
(measured from records)Romanelli 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 | 1,838 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Romanelli | 72 |
| BR Brazil | 1,325 | 1 in 160K | 1.3K | Romanelli | 91 |
| AR Argentina | 814 | 1 in 56K | 814 | Romanelli | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | 349 | 1 in 9.7K | 349 | Romanelli | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | 160 | 1 in 53K | 160 | Romanelli | 4 |
1,838 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)Romanelli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Romano, com sufixo plural -elli
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)- Giovanni Francesco Romanellib. 1610ITItalian painter (1610-1662)
- Luigi Romanellib. 1751ITItalian opera librettist
- Carlo Romanellib. 1872USAmerican artist (1872–1947)
- Pietro Romanellib. 1889ITItalian archaeologist (1889-1981)
- James Romanellib. 1929USAmerican politician (1929-1988)
- Raffaele Romanellib. 1942ITItalian contemporary historian (born 1942)
- Roland Romanellib. 1946FRFrench musician
- Carla Romanellib. 1949ITItalian actress
- Eugenia Romanellib. 1972ITItalian journalist and writer
- Olga RomanelliITItalian actress
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,731 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,154 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 814 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 349 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 160 | #7,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Romanelli mean, and where does it come from?
- Samuel Aaron Romanelli, Italian poet Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Romanelli?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /romaneʎi/; in Portuguese /ɾumɐ̃ɛlli/; in Italian /romanelːi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Romanelli have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Romanelli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romanelli.
- Where is Romanelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romanelli is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romanelli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,838 people named Romanelli in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romanelliThe 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, “Romanelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.