Romania
Only about 44 women in Poland carry this name, so most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Latin, marking someone as Roman, a woman of Rome.
Romania Pronunciation
Romania is pronounced ro-MAH-nyah (/rɔˈmaɲa/).
What Romania means
Where Romania comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romania comes from Latin, from the same root that gave us Rome and Roman. The short meaning is direct: a woman from Rome, one who belongs to the city. Behind it sits Romanus, the adjective Romans used for themselves and their world.
The name spread with the reach of Latin. When the Roman state fell away, the word for its language and its people stayed alive in place names and in personal names across Europe. The territory that became modern Romania took its name from the same Latin root, a claim of descent from Rome kept in the country's own title.
For a girl called Romania, the meaning stays close to the origin. It says: of Rome, Roman.
Picture the name read out from a class register in a Polish school. It sounds formal, a little old, and its Latin bones are easy to hear. There is no standard Polish diminutive on record for it, no settled short form to soften it. The Polish gloss holds steady where the Latin left it, rzymianka, a woman from Rome.
How many people are named Romania
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Romania. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5807 among female names.
Romania as a middle name
Romania is a first name for 44 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1860th, between Roisin (16) and Ronja (16).
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#1858 Remigia16
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#1859 Roisin16
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#1860 Romania16
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#1861 Ronja16
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#1862 Rosaria16