Romani
Only about 130 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The root is Latin, from Rome: it simply means Roman.
Romani Pronunciation
Romani is pronounced ro-MAH-nyee (/rɔˈmaɲi/).
What Romani means
Where Romani comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romani comes from Latin. The source is Romanus, an adjective meaning of Rome, belonging to the city on the Tiber. A Romanus was a Roman, a citizen or subject of the empire that carried Latin across Europe. The short meaning stays close to that root: from Rome, Roman.
The name keeps a small family around it. Roman is the plain variant, one of the more common male names in Poland, ranked 41st with over 174,000 bearers on the PESEL register. Romana is the feminine form. Romek is the diminutive a boy answers to at home.
Picture a Polish class register. The teacher reads Roman, and the boy raises his hand. His name-day falls on 28 February, with a second date on 9 August. A girl named Romana marks hers on 23 February or 3 October. Every version traces back to the same Latin word for a Roman.
How many people are named Romani
1 in 164201 men in Poland is named Romani. 130 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2928 among male names.