Rotaru
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/rotaru/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rotaru is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 21K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 924
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 924 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Moldova, 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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rotaru 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Alexandru Rotarub. 1929RORomanian rower
- Nicolae Rotarub. 1935RORomanian sports shooter
- Maria Rotarub. 1944RORomanian actress
- Sofia Rotarub. 1947UAUkrainian singer, songwriter and actress
- Doina Rotarub. 1951RORomanian composer
- Diana Rotarub. 1981Romanian composer
- Elysia Rotarub. 1984CACanadian actress
- Roxana Bârcăb. 1988ROnot in their usual nameRomanian long-distance runner
- Alina Rotarub. 1993RORomanian athletics competitor
- Andreea Rotarub. 1994RORomanian handball player
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 979 | #4,480 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 979 | #4,474 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 158 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 158 | #20,036 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #12,568 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 84 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 84 | #34,514 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Rotaru?
- A machine transcription gives /rotaru/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Rotaru have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Rotaru in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotaru.
- How common is the name Rotaru?
- In Spain, the national register counted 979 people named Rotaru, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Rotaru compared with other names?
- In Romania, Rotaru is the 64th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rotaruThe 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, “Rotaru” — the 64th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.