Romaniv
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Romaniv 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.
- PLPoland1 in 42K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1M
- RURussia≈1 in 1.3Kas Романов
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 Romaniv 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 42K (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
Poland
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, Romanow in PL Poland and Romanov in EE Estonia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Romaniv is found
(measured from records)Romaniv 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 | — | 915 | 1 in 42K | 866 | Romanow | 32 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Романов | 15 |
| EE Estonia | #718 | 406as Romanov | 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: 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)- Oleh Romanivb. 1928UAUkrainian engineer
- Stefan Romaniwb. 1955AUnot in their usual nameAustralian-Ukrainian activist
- Volodymyr Romanivb. 1985UAUkrainian association football player
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 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Romaniv?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Романов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Romaniv most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romaniv is densest in Poland — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Romaniv?
- In Poland, the national register counted 915 people named Romaniv in 2026, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Romaniv compared with other names?
- In Russia, Romaniv is the 67th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romanivThe 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, “Romaniv” — the 67th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.