Romasanta
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊməzæntə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Romasanta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish roma santa. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 102K
- UYUruguay1 in 169K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Spanishroma(measured from records)
- Latinsancta“holy”(inferred from the name graph)via santa
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Spanish roma santa. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romasanta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Romasanta | 26 |
| ES Spain | 276 | 1 in 181K | 276 | Romasanta | 45 |
| US United States | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 187 | Romasanta | 40 |
| AR Argentina | 107 | 1 in 425K | 107 | Romasanta | 25 |
| HN Honduras | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Romasanta | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | Romasanta | 7 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Romasanta 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 Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Marinduque
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)
- Manuel Blanco Romasantab. 1809ESSpanish serial killer (1809-1863)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 276 | #12,898 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 276 | #12,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 187 | #102,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 150 | #109,328 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 107 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Romasanta mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish roma santa. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Romasanta?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊməzæntə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Romasanta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Romasanta in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romasanta.
- How common is the name Romasanta?
- In Spain, the national register counted 276 people named Romasanta, 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/romasantaThe 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, “Romasanta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.