Romeu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romeu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 12K
- AOAngola≈1 in 17K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
17,205 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, 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 across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romeu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #1000 | 17,205 | 1 in 12K | 19K | Romeu | 132 |
| AO Angola | #487 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Romeu | 17 |
| PT Portugal | #494 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | listed | Romeu | 71 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 593K | 66 | Romeu | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 443 | Romeu | 149 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 15 | Romeu | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 191K | 16 | Romeu | 11 |
17,205 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Romeu 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.
In Galician, rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, pilgrim
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)
- Romeu Pellicciarib. 1911BRBrazilian footballer (1911-1971)
- Romeu Tumab. 1931BRBrazilian politician (1931-2010)
- Milionáriob. 1940BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer
- Romeu Evangelistab. 1950BRBrazilian association football player
- Romeu Evaristob. 1956BRBrazilian actor
- Romeu Zemab. 1964BRBrazilian businessman, politician and former state governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil
- Romeu Almeidab. 1974PTPortuguese footballer
- Romeu Pereira dos Santosb. 1985BRBrazilian footballer
- Romeu Rochab. 1986PTPortuguese footballer
- Romeu Ribeirob. 1989PTPortuguese footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6K | #1,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 443 | #50,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 329 | #61,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 286 | #64,934 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 50 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Is Romeu a male or female name?
- Romeu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Romeu?
- In the etymology graph, Roman, Romain and Romeo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Romeu have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Romeu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romeu.
- How common is the name Romeu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 17,205 people named Romeu in 2022, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Romeu compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Romeu is the 1000th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Romeu?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romeuThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Romeu” — the 1000th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.