Romanian name

A name in Romanian consists of a given name (prenume) and a surname (nume or nume de familie). In official documents, surnames usually appear before given names.

Romanians have one, two or more given names, like Ana Cristina Maria (three given names). All being chosen by the child's parents. One of them, usually the first, is used in daily life while the others are solely for official documents, such as birth, death and marriage certificates.

Traditionally, most people were given names from the Romanian Orthodox calendar of saints. Common names of this type are Ion or Andrei for males and Maria or Elena for females. Given names with a Christian lineage have an identifiable English equivalent: Andrei (Andrew), Constantin (Constantine), Cristian (Christian), Daniel/Dan (Daniel/), Gheorghe/George (George), Grigore (Gregory), Ilie (Elijah), Ion/Ioan (John), Iacob (Jacob/James), Laurențiu (Lawrence), Luca (Luke), Marcu (Mark), Matei (Matthew), Mihail/Mihai (Michael), Nicolae/Niculaie (Nicholas), Pavel/Paul (Paul), Petru/Petre (Peter), Ștefan (Stephen), Vasile (Basil). The most common name, Maria is the equivalent of Mary.

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