Rohmer

German surname
"pilgrim; fame"

Rohmer Origin and Meaning

The name Rohmer is a boy's name of German origin meaning "pilgrim; fame".

Related to other stylish choices from Roman to Romy to Romeo, Rohmer is a German surname that relates to both Roman pilgrims and the root word for fame. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach chose this version for their son. The couple's film Margot at the Wedding was an homage to French New Wave director Eric Rohmer, who died a few month's before Rohmer Baumbach's birth. Like many other fashionable new German names for boys, Rohmer has two syllables and ends in -er.

Famous People Named Rohmer

  • Eric Rohmerfilm director
  • Sax Rohmerwriter, creator of Fu Manchu
  • Rohmer Emmanuel Baumbach (b. 2010)son of American actress Jennifer Jason Leigh and American filmmaker Noah Baumbach