Most Popular Italian Surnames — Romano

Number 5 Italian Surname Romano

I guess it’s not surprise that Romano is in the top 5 most common Italian surnames.  Some show it as 5 some as 6, but we’ll probably see some discrepancies as we move down the list.

ROMANO ROMANNO: Local. From lands in the county of Peebles, Scotland, so called from a Roman military way, leading from the famous Roman camp at Line to the Lothians, which passed through the middle of those lands, from which they were called Romanno.  Romano is also associated with Sephardic Jews.

— Ludus Patronymicus(1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

(Italian) One who came from Rome (four crossroads), or from within Rome’s political sphere; one who has visited Rome.

— Dictionary of American Family Names(1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

There is one branch of the Colonna family with Romano appended to it in the Libro d’Oro

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Famous Romano’s

Acting

• Andrea Romano(born 1955), voice actress

• Andy Romano(born 1941), American actor

• Carlo Romano(1908–1975), Italian film actor, screenwriter and voice actor

• Christy Carlson Romano(born 1984), American actress

• Gerardo Romano(born 1946), Argentine actor

• Janet Romano, an American actress

• Larry Romano(born 1963), American actor

• Nina Romano, American actress

• Ray Romano(born 1957), American actor and comedian

• Rino Romano(born 1969), Canadian voice actor

Art and writing

• Antoniazzo Romano(1430s–1510s), Italian Early Renaissance painter

• Giulio Romano(c. 1490–1546), 16th-century Italian artist

• Romano Romanelli(1882–1968), Italian sculptor

• Romano Vio(1913–1984), Italian sculptor

• Lou Romano(born 1972), member of the Art Department in Pixar Animation Studios

• Lalla Romano(1906–2001), Italian novelist, poet, and journalist

• Romano Bilenchi(1909–1989), Italian novelist, short story writer and essayist

• Rose Romano(born 1959), American poet

Music

• Aldo Romano(born 1941), Italian-French jazz drummer

• Daniel Romano(born 1985), Canadian musician

• Frank Romano(born 1970), American born guitarist, songwriter and record producer

• Tony Romano (musician)(1915–2005), American guitarist and performer

Politics

• Romano Prodi(born 1939), former prime minister of Italy

• Francesco Saverio Romano(born 1964), Italian politician

Sports

• Ángel Romano(1893–1972), Uruguayan footballer

• Rubén Omar Romano(born 1958), Argentine-Mexican footballer

• Serge Romano(born 1964), French footballer

• Romano Denneboom(born 1981), Dutch footballer

• Romano Perticone(born 1986), Italian footballer who plays for Cesena

• Luke Romano(born 1986), New Zealand rugby union footballer

• Al Romano(born 1954), American football player

• Johnny Romano(1934–2019), American baseball player

• Mike Romano(born 1972), American baseball player

• Jason Romano(born 1979), former professional baseball player

• Tom Romano(born 1958), baseball player

• Sal Romano(born 1993), baseball player

• Megan Romano(born 1991), American swimmer

• Tony Romano (ice hockey)(born 1988), American ice hockey player

• Romano Bonagura(1930–2010), Italian bobsledder, 1964 Winter Olympics

• Yossef Romano(1940–1972), Israeli athlete murdered at Munich Olympics

• Romano Fenati(born 1996), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer

• Romano Racing, an Australian motor racing team, 1995–2003

Other people

• Antonio Romano (disambiguation), multiple people

• Ezzelino da Romano, a medieval Italian family

• Romano Bobone, an Italian cardinal, 928 by Pope Leo VI

• Romano Guardini(1885–1968), Italian-German Catholic priest

• Romano Artioli(born 1932), Italian entrepreneur

• Carmine Romano(1935–2011), New York mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family

• Benito Romano(born 1950), Puerto Rican lawyer

• Carla Romano(born 1969), Scottish journalist

• Edward A. Romano, American business executive

• John Romano (disambiguation), multiple people

• Joseph L. Romano, officer in the United States Air Force

• Tony Romano (disambiguation), multiple people

Romano Links

Romano Link from Ancestry

Romano Link from Forbears

Romano Link from igenea.  They have a research project for Romano.

Description:The Romano Family Project is open to all who are interested in working together to find their common heritage through sharing of information and dna testing. All variant spellings are welcome. If your Surname is missing and should be included, we’ll be glad to add it. Please visit our website and add your family to the Patriarch Page.

Requirements:A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father’s father’s father’s…) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father’s Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father’s direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.

Romano Crests from Stemmario.It

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