List of Roman nomina

This is a list of Roman nomina. The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen and claiming descent from a common ancestor. Over centuries, a gens could expand from a single family to a large clan, potentially including hundreds or even thousands of members. Some of these may have been the descendants of freedmen or persons who entered the gens through adoption, while in other cases, different families that had assumed the same nomen in the distant past became confused with one another, and came to be regarded as a single gens.

In the following list, "I" and "J" are treated as separate letters, as are "U" and "V". The letter "K" was rare in Latin, and the few nomina occasionally spelled with this letter were usually spelled with "C". No Roman gentes began with "X", and the letters "Y" and "Z" occurred only in names borrowed from Greek. The letter "W" did not exist in Classical Latin. Nomina are given in the masculine form—the form borne by all male members of a gens. The gentes themselves were grammatically feminine.

Those nomina representing gentes for which separate articles exist are linked to those articles; those belonging to only one or two individuals, or known from only a few inscriptions, are not usually linked, but may be cited to the literary sources or inscriptions in which they are attested.

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Quartienus^[87]^[88]
Quartinius
Quartius
Queresius^[89]
Quinctilius
Quinctius
Quinquaius^[90]
Quintinius
Quirinius

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Ulentinius^[133]
Ulpius
Umberius^[134]^[135]
Umbilius
Umbirius^[136]
Umboleius^[137]
Umbonius
Umbrenus^[138]
Umbricius
Umbrius
Umbrilius^[139]
Umerius^[41]
Ummidius
Urbanius
Urbicius
Urbinius
Urgulanius
Urinaeus^[140]
Urseius
Urvinius
Ussinus^[16]^[141]
Utilius
Uttiedius

V

Z

Zazgius^[5]
Zebucius^[5]

References

^ CIL XIII, 1674, CIL XIII, 1675.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g CIL X, 3699.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Kajanto, "The Significance of Non-Latin Cognomina", p. 526.
^ CIL XI, 3254.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f CIL VI, 1057.
^ CIL XI, 710.
^ CIL VI, 32627
^ CIL XII, 2256, CIL XII, 2274.
^ AE 1998, 543b, AE 1998, 543c.
^ CIL VIII, 17337.
^ ^a ^b ^c EDCS, 574.
^ CIL XIII, 7978.
^ CIL V, 2096
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Brusin, Inscriptiones Aquileiae, i. 677.
^ CIL VI, 12489.
^ ^a ^b CIL XI, 6390.
^ CIL V, 6518.
^ CIL VIII, 26735, CIL VIII, 27359.
^ CIL V, 708.
^ ^a ^b CIL V, 890.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d CIL X, 4719.
^ BCTH, 1954-169.
^ CIL XIV, 3654.
^ ^a ^b CIL X, 6331
^ ^a ^b CIL XI, 3613.
^ RIB, i. 525.
^ AE 1979, 89.
^ Inscriptiones Aquileiae, i. 680.
^ CIL X, 4325.
^ CIL VIII, 24980.
^ MAD, 225.
^ BCTH, 1909-186.
^ ^a ^b CIL VIII, 12041.
^ CIL XI, 4988.
^ Šašel and Šašel, Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia, iii. 2885, 2886.
^ AE 2010, 1151.
^ CIL XI, 6206.
^ CIL I, 2704.
^ CIL X, 4852.
^ CIL VI, 975.
^ ^a ^b ^c CIL VI, 20792.
^ Hispania Epigraphica, 2011, 369.
^ Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, i. 2075c.
^ RIB, i. 537.
^ ^a ^b AE 2005, 465.
^ CIL XV, 8236.
^ AE 2013, 336.
^ CIL XI, 7926, CIL XI, 7945.
^ CIL I, 3068.
^ CIL VI, 3711.
^ CIL VIII, 5775.
^ Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, ii. 2, 6624.
^ CIL X, 6529.
^ CIL VI, 2380.
^ CIL VII, 327.
^ AE 1892, 58, AE 1987, 736.
^ AE 1972, 154.
^ CIL VI, 41394.
^ AE 1971, 402.
^ CIL I, 2944.
^ AE 1989, 549.
^ Epigraphica, 2021–332.
^ CIL III, 175, CIL III, 14165,05.
^ CIL X, 2750, CIL XII, 201.
^ AE 2005, 1255.
^ AE 2006, 1862, AE 2008, 1195, AE 2012, 1957.
^ CIL I, 2238.
^ CIL X, 4727.
^ CIL X, 3778.
^ CIL III, 7369, CIL IX, 4417.
^ CIL XIII, 1462, CIL XIII, 2608, CIL XIII, 2609.
^ AE 1996, 1124.
^ Kolb, Tituli Helvetici, 707, 7.
^ CIL VI, 7829, CIL VI, 23675.
^ AE 1988, 805.
^ CIL VI, 23841.
^ CIL VI, 8935, CIL VI, 24177.
^ Teramo e la valle del Tordino, p. 219.
^ CIL III, 7154, CIL VIII, 18065.
^ CIL VIII, 26489.
^ AE 1992, 458.
^ CIL VI, 32919.
^ Finke, "Neue Inschriften", 47.
^ CIL VI, 29020, CIL IX, 3192, CIL IX, 3200, CIL IX, 3259.
^ CIL IX, 8474, CIL XI, 4911.
^ CIL XII, 3233.
^ AE 2019, 237.
^ Walser, Römische Inschriften in der Schweiz, iii. 305.
^ AE 1992, 1379.
^ CIL VI, 11171.
^ CIL VI, 6986, CIL XIV, 2108.
^ CIL V, 7035.
^ AE 1936, 12.
^ AE 1994, 559.
^ CIL III, 247, CIL VI, 1764
^ CIL V, 3268.
^ CIL IX, 568.
^ CIL VI, 38869.
^ CIL XI, 7926.
^ AE 1988, 504.
^ AE 1964, 219b, AE 2014, 1019.
^ CIL III, 10005, CIL V, 861.
^ AE 1995, 139, CIL VI, 9455.
^ CIL XIV, 3381.
^ NSA, 1901-194.
^ AE 1976, 176.
^ NSA, 1918-127.
^ AE 2012, 1074.
^ CIL III, 4816.
^ CIL II, 3433.
^ CIL V, 8130.
^ AE 1983, 367.
^ CIL XI, 8113,20.
^ CIL XII, 5159.
^ ^a ^b Caesar, De Bello Gallico, iii. 7.
^ CIL VI, 31865
^ CIL XIII, 2921.
^ CIL VIII, 8164.
^ CIL VI, 37711, CIL IX, 587.
^ AE 1996, 555.
^ CIL XI, 4988.
^ NSA, 1923-373.
^ Tacitus, Annales, vi. 2.
^ CIL XIV, 4936, CIL V, 7113.
^ Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, i. 2419.
^ CIL XI, 1257.
^ CIL XI, 6184.
^ CIL XIII, 1683.
^ CIL V, 4001.
^ CIL V, 2438.
^ CIL II, 3542.
^ Hispania Epigraphica, 2003/04, 385.
^ AE 1975, 625.
^ Archeologia Classica, 1998-414.
^ AE 1961, 277.
^ CIL VIII, 10601.
^ CIL V, 6132.
^ CIL IX, 4171
^ CIL VIII, 6666.
^ NSA, 1897-64.
^ CIL XIII, 1999.
^ Hirtius, De Bello Alexandrino, 42.
^ Solin, "Die Wandinschriften im sog(enannten) Haus des M. Fabius Rufus", 66.
^ CIL VI, 28400.
^ CIL IX, 3386.
^ CIL IX, 4092.
^ CIL X, 4797, CIL X, 4819.
^ AE 2008, 387.
^ CIL IV, 2014, CIL XI, 4778.
^ AE 1989, 201.
^ Livy, xxvi. 33, 34.
^ CIL VI, 28636.
^ Caesar, De Bello Africo, 64.
^ CIL VI, 22311.
^ CIL VI, 17154.
^ AE 1988, 482.
^ Varro, De Lingua Latina, v. 55.
^ Livy, iii. 13, 24, 25, 29.
^ CIL XI, 3691.
^ CIL VI, 35898.

Bibliography

Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War); De Bello Africo (On the African War, attributed).
Aulus Hirtius, De Bello Alexandrino (On the Alexandrine War).
Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina (On the Latin Language).
Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales.
Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (News of Excavations from Antiquity, abbreviated NSA), Accademia dei Lincei (1876–present).
Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Archaeological Bulletin of the Committee on Historic and Scientific Works, abbreviated BCTH), Imprimerie Nationale, Paris (1885–1973).
René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
Stéphane Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie (Latin Inscriptions from Algeria), Edouard Champion, Paris (1922–present).
Hermann Finke, "Neue Inschriften", in Berichte der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, vol. xvii, pp. 1–107, 198–231 (1927).
Epigraphica, Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia (1939–present).
Anna and Jaroslav Šašel, Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia inter annos MCMXL et MCMLX repertae et editae sunt (Inscriptions from Yugoslavia Found and Published between 1940 and 1960), Ljubljana (1963–1986).
Iiro Kajanto, "The Significance of Non-Latin Cognomina", in Latomus, vol. 73, No. 3 (1968).
Heikki Solin, "Die Wandinschriften im sog(enannten) Haus des M. Fabius Rufus", in Neue Forschungen in Pompeji, B. Andreae, H. Kyrieleis, eds. Recklinghausen, pp. 243–272 (1975).
Gerold Walser, Römische Inschriften in der Schweiz (Roman Inscriptions of Switzerland), Haupt, Bern (1979–present).
Hispania Epigraphica (Epigraphy of Spain), Madrid (1989–present).
The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (abbreviated RIB), Oxford, (1990–present).
Giovanni Battista Brusin, Inscriptiones Aquileiae (Inscriptions of Aquileia), Udine (1991–1993).
M. Khanoussi, L. Maurin, Mourir à Dougga: Receuil des inscriptions funéraires (Dying in Dougga: a Compendium of Funerary Inscriptions, abbreviated MAD), Bordeaux, Tunis (2002).
Teramo e la valle del Tordino, Documenti dell'Abruzzo Teramano, Band 7, Part 1, Teramo (2006).
Anne Kolb, Tituli Helvetici: Die römischen Inschriften der West- und Ostschweiz (Helvetian Tablets: The Roman Inscriptions of West and East Switzerland), Rudolf Habelt, Bonn (2022).
Manfred Clauss, Anne Kolb, & Wolfgang A. Slaby, Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (abbreviated EDCS).

[1] CIL XIII, 1674, CIL XIII, 1675.

[CIL_10_3699-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g CIL X, 3699.

[Kajanto,_526-3] Kajanto, "The Significance of Non-Latin Cognomina", p. 526.

[4] CIL XI, 3254.

[CIL_6_1057-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f CIL VI, 1057.

[6] CIL XI, 710.

[7] CIL VI, 32627

[8] CIL XII, 2256, CIL XII, 2274.

[9] AE 1998, 543b, AE 1998, 543c.

[10] CIL VIII, 17337.

[EDCS_574-11] EDCS, 574.

[12] CIL XIII, 7978.

[13] CIL V, 2096

[IA_i_677-14] Brusin, Inscriptiones Aquileiae, i. 677.

[15] CIL VI, 12489.

[CIL_11_6390-16] CIL XI, 6390.

[17] CIL V, 6518.

[18] CIL VIII, 26735, CIL VIII, 27359.

[19] CIL V, 708.

[CIL_5_890-20] CIL V, 890.

[CIL_10_4719-21] CIL X, 4719.

[22] BCTH, 1954-169.

[23] CIL XIV, 3654.

[CIL_10_6331-24] CIL X, 6331

[CIL_11_3613-25] CIL XI, 3613.

[26] RIB, i. 525.

[27] AE 1979, 89.

[28] Inscriptiones Aquileiae, i. 680.

[29] CIL X, 4325.

[30] CIL VIII, 24980.

[31] MAD, 225.

[32] BCTH, 1909-186.

[CIL_8_12041-33] CIL VIII, 12041.

[34] CIL XI, 4988.

[35] Šašel and Šašel, Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia, iii. 2885, 2886.

[36] AE 2010, 1151.

[37] CIL XI, 6206.

[38] CIL I, 2704.

[39] CIL X, 4852.

[40] CIL VI, 975.

[CIL_6_20792-41] CIL VI, 20792.

[42] Hispania Epigraphica, 2011, 369.

[43] Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, i. 2075c.

[44] RIB, i. 537.

[AE_2005_465-45] AE 2005, 465.

[46] CIL XV, 8236.

[47] AE 2013, 336.

[48] CIL XI, 7926, CIL XI, 7945.

[49] CIL I, 3068.

[50] CIL VI, 3711.

[51] CIL VIII, 5775.

[52] Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, ii. 2, 6624.

[53] CIL X, 6529.

[54] CIL VI, 2380.

[55] CIL VII, 327.

[56] AE 1892, 58, AE 1987, 736.

[57] AE 1972, 154.

[58] CIL VI, 41394.

[59] AE 1971, 402.

[60] CIL I, 2944.

[61] AE 1989, 549.

[62] Epigraphica, 2021–332.

[63] CIL III, 175, CIL III, 14165,05.

[64] CIL X, 2750, CIL XII, 201.

[65] AE 2005, 1255.

[66] AE 2006, 1862, AE 2008, 1195, AE 2012, 1957.

[67] CIL I, 2238.

[68] CIL X, 4727.

[69] CIL X, 3778.

[70] CIL III, 7369, CIL IX, 4417.

[71] CIL XIII, 1462, CIL XIII, 2608, CIL XIII, 2609.

[72] AE 1996, 1124.

[73] Kolb, Tituli Helvetici, 707, 7.

[74] CIL VI, 7829, CIL VI, 23675.

[75] AE 1988, 805.

[76] CIL VI, 23841.

[77] CIL VI, 8935, CIL VI, 24177.

[78] Teramo e la valle del Tordino, p. 219.

[79] CIL III, 7154, CIL VIII, 18065.

[80] CIL VIII, 26489.

[81] AE 1992, 458.

[82] CIL VI, 32919.

[83] Finke, "Neue Inschriften", 47.

[84] CIL VI, 29020, CIL IX, 3192, CIL IX, 3200, CIL IX, 3259.

[85] CIL IX, 8474, CIL XI, 4911.

[86] CIL XII, 3233.

[87] AE 2019, 237.

[88] Walser, Römische Inschriften in der Schweiz, iii. 305.

[89] AE 1992, 1379.

[90] CIL VI, 11171.

[91] CIL VI, 6986, CIL XIV, 2108.

[92] CIL V, 7035.

[93] AE 1936, 12.

[94] AE 1994, 559.

[95] CIL III, 247, CIL VI, 1764

[96] CIL V, 3268.

[97] CIL IX, 568.

[98] CIL VI, 38869.

[99] CIL XI, 7926.

[100] AE 1988, 504.

[101] AE 1964, 219b, AE 2014, 1019.

[102] CIL III, 10005, CIL V, 861.

[103] AE 1995, 139, CIL VI, 9455.

[104] CIL XIV, 3381.

[105] NSA, 1901-194.

[106] AE 1976, 176.

[107] NSA, 1918-127.

[108] AE 2012, 1074.

[109] CIL III, 4816.

[110] CIL II, 3433.

[111] CIL V, 8130.

[112] AE 1983, 367.

[113] CIL XI, 8113,20.

[114] CIL XII, 5159.

[Caesar_BG_iii_7-115] Caesar, De Bello Gallico, iii. 7.

[116] CIL VI, 31865

[117] CIL XIII, 2921.

[118] CIL VIII, 8164.

[119] CIL VI, 37711, CIL IX, 587.

[120] AE 1996, 555.

[121] CIL XI, 4988.

[122] NSA, 1923-373.

[123] Tacitus, Annales, vi. 2.

[124] CIL XIV, 4936, CIL V, 7113.

[125] Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, i. 2419.

[126] CIL XI, 1257.

[127] CIL XI, 6184.

[128] CIL XIII, 1683.

[129] CIL V, 4001.

[130] CIL V, 2438.

[131] CIL II, 3542.

[132] Hispania Epigraphica, 2003/04, 385.

[133] AE 1975, 625.

[134] Archeologia Classica, 1998-414.

[135] AE 1961, 277.

[136] CIL VIII, 10601.

[137] CIL V, 6132.

[138] CIL IX, 4171

[139] CIL VIII, 6666.

[140] NSA, 1897-64.

[141] CIL XIII, 1999.

[142] Hirtius, De Bello Alexandrino, 42.

[143] Solin, "Die Wandinschriften im sog(enannten) Haus des M. Fabius Rufus", 66.

[144] CIL VI, 28400.

[145] CIL IX, 3386.

[146] CIL IX, 4092.

[147] CIL X, 4797, CIL X, 4819.

[148] AE 2008, 387.

[149] CIL IV, 2014, CIL XI, 4778.

[150] AE 1989, 201.

[151] Livy, xxvi. 33, 34.

[152] CIL VI, 28636.

[153] Caesar, De Bello Africo, 64.

[154] CIL VI, 22311.

[155] CIL VI, 17154.

[156] AE 1988, 482.

[157] Varro, De Lingua Latina, v. 55.

[158] Livy, iii. 13, 24, 25, 29.

[159] CIL XI, 3691.

[160] CIL VI, 35898.

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