Romuald
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romuald is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Benin it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Origine germanique, signifie « gloire du gouverneur ».
- FRFrance1 in 4.2K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 7.9K
- BEBelgium1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 287 ●
- 1 in 3.0K ◐
across 7 countries
188K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Romualdo in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 14 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Origine germanique, signifie « gloire du gouverneur ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #555 | 126,992 | 55K rec. | — | 20K | Romuald | 287 |
| AR Argentina | #941 | 32,174 | 26K rec. | — | 441 | Romualdo | 41 |
| MX Mexico | #896 | 23,434 | 28K rec. | — | 85 | Romualdo | 84 |
| PH Philippines | #967 | 21,144 | 27K rec. | — | listed | Romualdo | 51 |
| PL Poland | — | 12,920△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 3K | 13K | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | 7,771 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Romualdo | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,471 | 10K rec. | 1 in 28K | 9.1K | Romualdo | 119 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,638 | 1.8K rec. | — | 926 | Romualdo | 17 |
| CL Chile | — | 3,646 | 136 rec. | — | 1 | Romualdo | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,694 | 19K rec. | 1 in 196K | 1.7K | Romualdo | 130 |
| PY Paraguay | #723 | 1,440 | 839 rec. | — | — | Romualdo | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,326 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 38K | 1.4K | Romualdo | 76 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French132K59%
- Polish77K35%
- English3.9K2%
- German2.2K1%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 131,727 | 59% |
| Polish | 77,463 | 35% |
| English | 3,943 | 2% |
| German | 2,180 | 1% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,296 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Romuald is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Germanique, de hrod « gloire » + wald « gouverner ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, from hruom- 'fame' + -wald 'rule'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, männl. Vom. nach dem heiHgen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1901 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1904 | 10 |
| 1905 | 10 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 75 years between 1900–2002. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Romuald Trauguttb. 1826BYPolish general and war hero (1826-1864)
- Romuald Guttb. 1888PLPolish architect (1888-1974)
- Carlos Gardelb. 1890UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan singer, songwriter, actor; the most prominent figure in the history of tango
- Romuald Muklevichb. 1890PLSoviet military commander (1890–1938)
- Romuald Twardowskib. 1930PLPolish composer (1930–2024)
- Romuald Klimb. 1933BYSoviet and Belarusian hammer thrower (1933–2011)
- Romuald Figuierb. 1938FRFrench singer
- Romuald Hazoumèb. 1962BJYoruba artist from the Republic of Bénin (born 1962)
- Romuald Karmakarb. 1965DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Romuald Wadagnib. 1976BJPresident-elect of Benin (born 1976)
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●
Attested in 53 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 20K | #2,973 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13K | #154 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 13K | #159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 469 | #21,475 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 112 | #7,154 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 86 | #5,635 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 76 | #10,263 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 66 | #1,648 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 41 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 36 | #36,636 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 33 | #1,572 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 333 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Romuald?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Romuald (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Romuald have the most bearers?
- Romuald is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled romuald.
- How common is Romuald compared with other names?
- In France, Romuald is the 555th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Romuald a male or female name?
- Romuald 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.
- What does the name Romuald mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine germanique, signifie « gloire du gouverneur ».
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romuald” — the 555th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.