First name origins & meanings:
- Hebrew: Strong, powerful
- Latin: Place name: Rome, Italy; from Rome
First name variations: Romanos, Romula, Romulos, Romulus, Roman
Last name origins & meanings:
- Italian and Spanish: from the personal name Romano,
Latin Romanus, borne by several saints and martyrs. This was
originally a byname for someone from Rome or for a Roman citizen, from
Roma ‘Rome’. See also Roman.
- Italian: (Romanò): in Calabria, a term for someone from Nea
Rhōmē ‘New Rome’, a medieval Greek name for Constantinople.
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