Romualdo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: germánico Hruomwald: 'fama' + 'mando'; 'glorioso en el mando'
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/roˈmwaldo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Romualdo is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 9.3K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 11K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)germánico Hruomwald: 'fama' + 'mando'; 'glorioso en el mando'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Romualdo 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 | #962 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Romualdo | 51 |
| MX Mexico | #863 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 85 | Romualdo | 84 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,471 | 1 in 28K | 9.1K | Romualdo | 117 |
| AR Argentina | #872 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 441 | Romualdo | 38 |
| US United States | — | 1,694 | 1 in 196K | 1.7K | Romualdo | 145 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Romualdo | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #768 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Romualdo | 13 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Romualdo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Longobardo; da radici germaniche hrod ‘gloria’ e walt ‘potenza, dominio’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Longobardo, dalle radici geruianiclie tiroiri = gloria e waìt = potenza. dominio. S. Romualdo, secolo X.XI, fondatorc dell'eremo d i Camaldoli, 7 febbraio. Non d i altri cognomi clie Romualdi. Romoldi.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Romualdus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Romualdi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Re glorioso
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Romuald I of Beneventob. 630not in their usual nameItalian duke
- Romuald II of Beneventob. 690not in their usual nameItalian Duke
- Romualdb. 951ITnot in their usual namefounder of the Camaldolese order
- Romuald Guarnab. 1115ITnot in their usual nameItalian archbishop
- Egidio Dunib. 1708ITnot in their usual nameItalian composer
- Joaquín Gaztambideb. 1822ESnot in their usual namecomposer of zarzuelas from Navarre, Spain
- Romualdo Pachecob. 1831USGovernor of California (1831-1899)
- Romualdo Marencob. 1841ITItalian composer (1841–1907)
- Romualdo Rossib. 1877ITItalian writer
- Romualdo Arppi Filhob. 1939BRBrazilian association football referee (1939–2023)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 14K | #1,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 650 | #36,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 623 | #35,993 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 441 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 63 | #2,354 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Romualdo?
- In the etymology graph, Romuald, Romualdas and Romualds are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Romualdo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /roˈmwaldo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ʁumualðu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Romualdo a male or female name?
- Romualdo is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Spain (INE): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Romualdo mean?
- Recorded meaning: germánico Hruomwald: 'fama' + 'mando'; 'glorioso en el mando'.
- In which country does Romualdo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Romualdo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romualdo.
- How common is the name Romualdo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,471 people named Romualdo in 2022, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Romualdo compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Romualdo is the 962nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romualdoThe 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, “Romualdo” — the 962nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.