Rombout

Rombout is a Dutch masculine given name, equivalent to English Rumbold. It is of Germanic origin, containing the Old Saxon elements -hrôm- ("fame", Dutch roem) and -bald-  ("brave"). It is also possible that the first element comes from -Rûma- ("Rome"), a place name that also featured in old Germanic names. Early source usually Latinized Saint Rombout's name as Rumoldus, as in the first known mention in a pre-927 grant by Charles the Simple, mentioning that the Mechelen abbey had been built in his honor ("in honorem S. Rumoldi martyris constructam").


 * Saint Rombout (died between 580 and 655), in English known as "Rumbold of Mechelen"
 * Rombout Hogerbeets (1561–1625), Dutch statesman
 * Rombout II Keldermans (1460–1531), Belgian architect
 * Rombout van Troyen (1605–1655), Dutch landscape painter
 * Rombout Verhulst (1624–1698), Flemish-Dutch sculptor
 * Catheryna Rombout Brett (1687–1764), American businesswoman