Romeo

Gender Masculine
Usage Italian, Romanian
Pronounced Pron. ro-MEH-o(Italian) RO-mee-o(English)  [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

Italian and Romanian form of the Late Latin Romaeus or Late Greek Ρωμαῖος (Romaios), which meant "from Rome" or "Roman". In medieval Italian this meant "a pilgrim to Rome". Romeo is best known as the lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1596).

Related Names

Other Languages & CulturesRaman(Belarusian) Romà(Catalan) Roman(Croatian) Roman(Czech) Romein(Dutch) Roman(English) Roman(Estonian) Romain(French) Roman(German) Román(Hungarian) Romanos(Late Greek) Romaeus, Romanus(Late Roman) Romāns(Latvian) Roman(Polish) Romão, Romeu(Portuguese) Rómulo, Rômulo(Portuguese (European)) Romulus(Roman Mythology) Roman, Roma(Russian) Roman(Slovak) Roman(Slovene) Román, Rómulo(Spanish) Roman(Ukrainian)
User SubmissionsRómeó, Roméo, Romèo, Romeo

Popularity

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Name Days

France: February 25 (as Roméo)
Hungary: February 7 (as Rómeó)

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Entry updated November 20, 2020