Romanes
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Romanno in Newlands, Peeblesshire; first attested Philip de Roumanoch c1250 Black
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊməniz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Romanes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 9.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9M (inferred from the name graph)
23 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Romanno in Newlands, Peeblesshire; first attested Philip de Roumanoch c1250 Black
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Romanes is read(measured from records)
Romanes is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English55%
from Romanno in Newlands, Peeblesshire; first attested Philip de Roumanoch c1250 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Romani, the language of the Gypsies
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Romanes in Spanish.
- French6.1%
feminine plural of roman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romanes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | Romanes | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Romanes | 21 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Romanes | 38 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Romanes | 8 |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | Romanes | 8 |
23 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Romanes 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 Catalan, feminine plural of romà
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)
- Isabella Romanesb. 1797(1797-1885)
- George Romanesb. 1805Scottish minister
- George Romanesb. 1848GBBritish evolutionary biologist (1848–1894)
- Charles S. Romanesb. 1852RUauthor
- Robert John Romanesb. 1852GBBritish Army officer
- Ethel Romanesb. 1856GBBritish writer and religious activist
- Louise Romanesb. 1860(1860-1909)
- George John Romanesb. 1916GBBritish anatomy professor (1916-2014)
- Glenyys Romanesb. 1945AUpolitician
- Robert RomanesScottish historian
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #143,172 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Romanes mean, and where does it come from?
- from Romanno in Newlands, Peeblesshire; first attested Philip de Roumanoch c1250 Black Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Romanes?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊməniz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Romanes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 23 people named Romanes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romanes.
- Where is Romanes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romanes is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.9 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romanes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Romanes, about 1 in 9.2 million 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/romanesThe 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, “Romanes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.