Romaniia
A Ukrainian feminine form of Roman, from Latin Romanus: someone of Rome. Used almost entirely by Ukrainian families in Poland, it stays rare, with fewer than 200 women carrying it, so most Poles have never met one.
Romaniia Pronunciation
Romaniia is pronounced ro-MAHNY-yah (/rɔˈmaɲja/).
What Romaniia means
Where Romaniia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romaniia begins in Latin, in the adjective Romanus. The word marked someone who belonged to Rome, a Roman by city and by law. The name says exactly that, roman, from Rome, and it hides none of its roots.
In Ukrainian hands the name became a woman's answer to Roman. It shares every letter of that origin, the same walls, the same old city on the Tiber. A girl named Romaniia stands in a class register next to some boy called Roman, and the two names lean on one Latin word.
The link to Rome is no legend added later. It sits in the first syllable and never leaves. On a birth certificate or an official form, Romaniia keeps the plain sense it was born with. Roman. From Rome.
How many people are named Romaniia
1 in 131069 women in Poland is named Romaniia. 172 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2440 among female names.