Romano

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Roman (of, from or relating to the city of Rome, capital of Italy)

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

/romano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Romano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 988(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.1K
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈56,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 988 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RomanoLatin(measured from records)
ΡομάνοGreek(measured from records)

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)

From the Late Latin personal name Romanus ‘Roman’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Romano is read(measured from records)

Romano is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish40%

    Roman (of, from or relating to the city of Rome, capital of Italy)

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

  • English40%

    a hard, sharp cheese served grated as a garnish

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

    cheese

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Portuguese6.6%

    Roman (of or relating to the city of Rome)

    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)

Romano 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 Romano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#13≈56,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K5Romano203
AR Argentina#14446,0411 in 98846KRomano120
US United States—29,0181 in 11K29KRomano260
PH Philippines#771≈24,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Romano54
BR Brazil#433≈23,000 est.≈1 in 9.3K1.4KRomano163
CH Switzerland—2,0221 in 4.2K2KRomano64
UY Uruguay#218≈980 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Romano48

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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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)

Romano is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Romanò, Romano', Romanó, Romaño, Rōmano

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written Romano', Romanò, Rômanö, Romàno, Romanõ

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Romanò, Roman-O, Ṛomano, Romanó, Románo

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Italy, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Романо, Romanõ, Ròmànò, Romanò

  • Lao surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written โรมาโน, โรมาโน่, Ròmànò, โรมมาโน, Romanò

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Романо, R⃠o⃠m⃠a⃠n⃠o⃠, Römånō, Romanò

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Philippines, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Romàno

72 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)

Romano is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From the Late Latin personal name Romanus ‘Roman’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, hab. de Roma; ou forma italiana de Romanus

    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)

12001400160018002000Giles of Rome, b. 1243Antoniazzo Romano, b. 1430Giulio Romano, b. 1499Angel Romano, b. 1894Andy Romano, b. 1936Andrea Romano, b. 1955Ray Romano, b. 1957Rino Romano, b. 1959Christy Carlson Romano, b. 1984Fabrizio Romano, b. 1993

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)

FormalEstimado/a Romano,Dear Romano, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Romano,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 92 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Romano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—46K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201029K#1,219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202028K#1,247
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200027K#1,171
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242K#472

Reference works 10

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

Where does the name Romano come from?
From the Late Latin personal name Romanus ‘Roman’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What does the name Romano mean?
In Spanish, Roman (of, from or relating to the city of Rome, capital of Italy)
How do you pronounce Romano?
A machine transcription gives /romano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Romano?
In the etymology graph, Romanos, Romão and Romein are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Romano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Romano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romano.
Where is Romano most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romano is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 988 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Romano?
In Argentina, the national register counted 46,041 people named Romano, about 1 in 988 residents.
How common is Romano compared with other names?
In Italy, Romano is the 13th most common surname of 502,013 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, “Romano” — the 13th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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