Romanna
Just 115 Polish women carry it, so most people will never meet one. A feminine counterpart to Roman, from the Latin for someone of Rome.
Romanna Pronunciation
Romanna is pronounced ro-MAHN-nah (/rɔˈmanna/).
What Romanna means
Where Romanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romanna is the feminine of Roman, and it grew up inside Ukrainian families as a name of its own. The root reaches back to Latin Romanus, meaning a Roman, a person from Rome. Slavic speakers took that root and shaped it to their own tongue, so Romanna sits comfortably in Lviv or Kyiv while still pointing at a city far to the west.
The short meaning stays close to that beginning: from Rome, Roman. In Polish the sense is rzymianka, a woman of Rome. Roman, the cross-gender form, holds several name-day entries in the Polish calendar, and a girl called Romanna shares that Roman lineage without borrowing his ending.
The name is short in the mouth. Read a class register in a Polish school with Ukrainian pupils, and Romanna can turn up between Roksana and Zofia, needing no explanation. For a Polish speaker she is simply rzymianka, pochodząca z Rzymu.
How many people are named Romanna
1 in 196033 women in Poland is named Romanna. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3165 among female names.
Romanna as a middle name
Romanna is a first name for 115 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2851st, between Rodica (8) and Ronit (8).
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#2849 Rihanna8
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#2850 Rodica8
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#2851 Romanna8
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#2852 Ronit8
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#2853 Rosalind8