Rumen
given name · Bulgarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rumen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- BGBulgaria1 in 1.3K◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 136K
- ESSpain1 in 159K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈681 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 159K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
7.3K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Румен in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, UA Ukraine and 1 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
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #54 | 34,082 | 5.2K rec. | — | — | Rumen | 134 |
| RU Russia | — | 443 | 284 rec. | — | — | Румен | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 369 | 143 rec. | — | — | Rumen | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 314 | 403 rec. | 1 in 159K | 329 | Rumen | 39 |
| US United States | — | 204 | 587 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 204 | Rumen | 103 |
| IT Italy | — | 127 | 119 rec. | — | — | Rumen | 12 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 98 | 57 rec. | — | — | Румен | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 95△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 403K | 95 | Rumen | 10 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 75 | 231 rec. | — | — | Румен | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 72 | 60 rec. | — | 32 | Rumen | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | — | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 20△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bulgarian22K78%
- Spanish1.6K6%
- German9603%
- English7113%
- French5752%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | 21,918 | 78% |
| Spanish | 1,593 | 6% |
| German | 960 | 3% |
| English | 711 | 3% |
| French | 575 | 2% |
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●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 18 |
| 2020 | 18 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 68 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rumen?
- We estimate roughly 681 people bear Rumen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rumen have the most bearers?
- Rumen is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled rumen.
- How common is Rumen compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Rumen is the 54th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
- 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.
Query this name via API
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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.
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 54th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.