Romanow
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəˈmænoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Romanow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 909K(measured from records)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 20K
- PLPoland1 in 84K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
456 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romanow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 456 | 1 in 84K | 236 | Romanow | 2 |
| US United States | 366 | 1 in 909K | 366 | Romanow | 169 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Romanow | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Romanow | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 787K | 7 | Romanow | 25 |
| GH Ghana | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Romanow | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Romanow | 1 |
456 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling romanów. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
- Michael I of Russiab. 1596RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1613–1645)
- Feodor III of Russiab. 1661RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1676–1682)
- Ivan V of Russiab. 1666RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (lived 1666-1696)
- Peter II of Russiab. 1715RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia (1715-1730)
- Paul I of Russiab. 1754RUnot in their usual nameThe ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- Alexander I of Russiab. 1777RUnot in their usual nameThe tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
- Nicholas I of Russiab. 1796RUnot in their usual nameThe 11th Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855 (lived 1796-1855)
- Alexander III of Russiab. 1845RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russiab. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian general (1856-1929); son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich the Elder and Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg
- Nicholas II of Russiab. 1868RUnot in their usual name14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 366 | #55,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 340 | #63,405 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 334 | #57,090 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 120 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 120 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 120 | #25,944 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 120 | #25,545 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Romanow?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəˈmænoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Romanow have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 456 people named Romanow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romanow.
- How common is the name Romanow?
- In Poland, the national register counted 456 people named Romanow in 2026, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Romanow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romanowThe 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, “Romanow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.