Romanos

Ρωμανός (Romanos) is actually Modern Greek and so the usage of this name should be changed to "Greek (Rare)", as there are definitely living Greek bearers of the name on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The proper Ancient and Byzantine Greek spelling is Ῥωμανός, which is polytonic (unlike modern Greek) and correctly transcribed as Rhomanos. Also compare Greek names from the main database that start with Ῥ- (Rh-), such as Rhode and Rhoxane.

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Sources used:

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- https://www.trismegistos.org/name/7537 (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ῥωμανός (in English; also look for "Descendants")
- Ῥωμανός (Rhomanos, ancient Greek/archaia ellinika): https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ῥωμανός (in Greek)
- Ρωμανός (Romanos, modern Greek/nea ellinika): https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ρωμανός (in Greek)
- see the entry for Romanos at Pavlos' Etymologica: http://web.archive.org/web/20120325073657/http://www.etymologica.com/page22.htm (in English)
- Rhomanos at the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN): http://clas-lgpn2.classics.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lgpn_search.cgi?namenoaccents=Ρωμανος (in English; features 31 results)
- https://glg.csic.es/NombresGriegosDePersona/ListasNombres/NombresDePersona_R.html (in Spanish)
- Ῥωμ- (Rhom-): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=start&lookup=rwm&lang=greek (in English; change the Greek display to 'Latin transliteration')
- Byzantine Greek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Greek (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek#Diacritical_marks (in English; "[...] the h is supplied even where the rough breathing is not marked in ancient and medieval Greek [...] but not in Greek after 1453")
- historical Greek bearers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos (in English; only the articles for Romanos Kourkouas and Romanos the Melodist use the correct Greek spelling from their era)