Romanow Surname

229,425th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,766 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Canada

Romanow Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Romanow Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5381:673,71553,674
Canada4811:76,6028,623
Poland3161:120,28117,904
Germany2021:398,54236,874
Russia821:1,757,598114,376
Argentina441:971,44161,182
Brazil301:7,135,811166,009
France111:6,038,429280,838
Denmark101:564,47234,222
Australia81:3,374,463124,818
England81:6,964,757184,742
Kazakhstan61:2,947,083107,736
Uruguay41:857,94031,713
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
Chile31:5,872,15852,204
Belarus31:3,167,020121,664
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Latvia21:1,025,02341,546
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Turkmenistan11:5,489,11211,427
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786

The alternate forms: Romanów (530) are calculated separately.

Romanow Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Romanow Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Romanow occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms: Romanów. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Romanow? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 229,425th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 4,126,583 people. The last name Romanow is predominantly found in The Americas, where 62 percent of Romanow are found; 58 percent are found in North America and 57 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname Romanow is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 538 people, or 1 in 673,715. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: Massachusetts, where 15 percent are found, Illinois, where 12 percent are found and New York, where 11 percent are found. Other than The United States this last name is found in 27 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 27 percent are found and Poland, where 18 percent are found.

Romanow Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Romanow last name is predominantly Orthodox (50%) in Russia.

In The United States those bearing the Romanow last name are 43.51% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 96.74% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Romanow earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 29.69% more than the national average, earning $55,958 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.91% less than the national average, earning $48,238 CAD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Romanow
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