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Where did the Italian Rome family come from? What is the Italian coat of arms/family crest? When did the Rome family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the history of the family name?

Piedmont, one of the oldest and most beautiful island regions of Italy, is the esteemed birthplace of numerous prominent families, including the family that bears the surname Rome. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adapt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era; the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they are characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in Piedmont is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, names derived from occupations are also found. Occupational surnames, which are less common that other types of surnames in Italy, date back to the feudal era. However, under the Feudal System, occupational names did not become hereditary until the offices themselves became hereditary. It was only after an occupation was inherited by several generations in lineal descent, that occupational names came to be applied to entire families, and so became a hereditary surname. The surname Rome is a name for a person who owned, managed, or worked in a mill deriving its origin from the Italian word molino, which meant mill.

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Some noteworthy people of the name Rome
  • Harold Rome (b. 1908), American composer
  • Lewis Rome, Lawyer, Connecticut


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The Rome Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Rome Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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