Romieu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romieu is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin Rōmaeus, from Byzantine Greek ῥωμαῖος (rhōmaîos, literally “Roman”), a sobriquet given to Roman Catholic pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- FRFrance
- DEGermany
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Late LatinRōmaeus(measured from records)
- Byzantine Greekῥωμαῖοςrhōmaîos“Roman”(measured from records)
From Late Latin Rōmaeus, from Byzantine Greek ῥωμαῖος (rhōmaîos, literally “Roman”), a sobriquet given to Roman Catholic pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- ESSpain
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Romieu 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 Occitan, 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)
- Jean-Baptiste Romieub. 1723FR(b Montpellier, Sept 14, 1723; d Montpellier, Nov 8, 1766). French dilettante and scientist. In December 1751 he announced his discovery of difference tones, which he had made by experiments with wind instruments. (Nearly three years later Tartini, e
- Antoine-Alexandre Romieub. 1764FRFrench diplomat (1764-1805)
- Auguste Romieub. 1800FRFrench official (1800–1855)
- Louis Roumieuxb. 1829FRnot in their usual nameFrench Occitan poet (1829-1894)
- Gaston Romieub. 1866FRFrench engineer (1866-1933)
- Emile Romieub. 1890FRFrench writer
- Maurici Romieub. 1943FRFrench linguist
- Serge Romieub. 1961FRFrench politician
- Sylvie Romieub. 1963FRFrench politician
- Hervé Romieub. 1978FRFrench politician
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 98 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 73 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
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 Romieu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Late Latin Rōmaeus, from Byzantine Greek ῥωμαῖος (rhōmaîos, literally “Roman”), a sobriquet given to Roman Catholic pilgrims to the Holy Land. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Romieu have the most bearers?
- Romieu is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romieuThe same 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), 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, “Romieu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.