Rumen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rumen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 864(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 98K
- ESSpain1 in 159K
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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 864 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Румен in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rumen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #32 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 864 | — | Rumen | 143 |
| ES Spain | — | 314 | 1 in 159K | 329 | Rumen | 39 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Rumen | 12 |
| US United States | — | 210 | 1 in 1.6M | 204 | Rumen | 117 |
| FR France | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 451K | 23 | Румен | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 32 | Rumen | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Rumen is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, Romanian (of, from or relating to Romania)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Romanian (native of Romania)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, rosy, ruddy, pink
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, rumen (stomach)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, throat, gullet
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)
- Rumen Gasharovb. 1936BGBulgarian artist
- Rumen Petkovb. 1948BGBulgarian animator (1948-2018)
- Rumen Minkovb. 1950BGBulgarian football historians and statisticians
- Rumen Avramovb. 1953BGBulgarian economist
- Rumen Hristovb. 1955BGBulgarian politician
- Rumen Petkovb. 1961BGBulgarian politician
- Rumen Radevb. 1963BGPrime Minister of Bulgaria since 2026
- Rumen Goranovb. 1984BGBulgarian footballer
- Rumen Trifonovb. 1985BGBulgarian footballer
- Rumen Rumenovb. 1993BGBulgarian footballer (1993-)
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 32 | #35,310 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Rumen a male or female name?
- Rumen 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.
- In which country does Rumen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Rumen in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rumen.
- How common is the name Rumen?
- In Spain, the national register counted 314 people named Rumen, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Rumen compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Rumen is the 32nd most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rumen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rumenThe 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, “Rumen” — the 32nd most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.