The Romani surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,174 people carried this name — #20,898 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 429 people named Romani.
98 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 37 départements, most often Corsica.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
80 people named Romani live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 34 people named Romani live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Romani.
- Romain 2,428 · U.S. census
- Roman 59,020 · U.S. census
- Romana 215 · U.S. census
- Romane 218 · U.S. census
- Romanelli 1,822 · U.S. census
- Romanello 700 · U.S. census
- Romanini 230 · U.S. census
- Romann 164 · U.S. census
- Romano 27,401 · U.S. census
- Romanowski 2,780 · U.S. census
- Romary 193 · U.S. census
- Rombach 626 · U.S. census
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