Romei
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Romeo ou de Rhomaeus
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/romɛi/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Romei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 460K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 680Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Romeo ou de Rhomaeus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Romei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Romei | 23 |
| US United States | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 178 | Romei | 106 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 462K | 22 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2M | listed | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Romei | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 685K | — | Romei | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giovanni Girolamo Romei Longhenab. 1865ITItalian general and politician (1865–1944)
- Roberto Romeib. 1926ITItalian politician
- Francesco Romeib. 1931ITItalian actor
- Roberto Romeib. 1958ITItalian football player
- Caio Romeib. 1988BRBrazilian actor
- Miriam Romeib. 1995ITItalian bicycle racer
- Angela Romeib. 1997ITItalian curler
- Carlo Romeib. 1999ITItalian footballer
- Mara Romeib. 2002ATAustrian actress and singer-songwriter
- Vincenzo RomeiITresearcher
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 178 | #106,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 21 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Romei mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Romeo ou de Rhomaeus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Romei?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /romɛi/; in Spanish /romɛi/; in Portuguese /ɾume/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Romei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Romei in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romei.
- How common is the name Romei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Romei in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 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/romeiThe 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, “Romei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.