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Roman Reigns Family Tree: The Anoaʻi Wrestling Dynasty
Roman Reigns, the “Tribal Chief” of WWE, comes from the Anoaʻi family, the largest dynasty in professional wrestling. His father and uncle were the Wild Samoans; his brother, his cousins and his cousins’ sons all wrestled; and The Rock is family through a bond between their grandfathers rather than by blood. This Roman Reigns family tree untangles who the real relatives in the Bloodline are, and how they are related.
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The Roman Reigns family tree chart
The Anoaʻi family starts at the top with Reverend Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi and three of his children: Afa and Sika, the Wild Samoans, and their sister Elevera, mother of Rikishi and Umaga. The Maivia-Johnson family is shown separately on the right, because it is connected to the Anoaʻis by a promise between friends, not by birth.
How to read the lines
- A short line between two people joins a couple; a dashed couple line means the marriage or relationship ended.
- A line going down from a couple (or one parent) to a horizontal bar leads to their children, who sit side by side on the row below.
- A dashed parent line with a small label marks an adoptive, step or guardian parent rather than a birth parent.
- Long lines across the chart join people who married into another branch. Click either person to see the connection highlighted.
The Anoaʻi wrestling family with ring names, and the Maivia-Johnson family linked to it by a blood-brother bond. Open the full-size image or open it in the editor to rearrange it.
Branch-by-branch family trees
The whole Roman Reigns family tree is wide because every generation sits on one row. These smaller charts follow one branch at a time: a person, their partners and all of their descendants. Click a chart to explore it above, or open it full size.
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Sika Anoaʻi family tree
Sika Anoaʻi’s family: Roman Reigns and Rosey: Sika Anoaʻi and their descendants, 4 people in all.
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Usos family tree
Rikishi, the Usos and Solo Sikoa: Solofa Fatu Jr. and their descendants, 5 people in all.
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The Rock family tree
The Rock’s family: the Maivias and Johnsons: Peter Maivia and their descendants, 5 people in all.
Roman Reigns’ parents and brother
Roman Reigns was born Leati Joseph Anoaʻi in Pensacola, Florida, in 1985, the son of Sika Anoaʻi and his wife Patricia. Sika and his brother Afa wrestled as the Wild Samoans, three-time WWF tag-team champions, and both are in the WWE Hall of Fame. Sika died in June 2024. Roman’s older brother Matthew, who wrestled as Rosey, died in 2017 at the age of 47. Before wrestling, Roman played football as a defensive tackle at Georgia Tech and briefly in the Canadian Football League.
How Roman Reigns is related to the Usos and Solo Sikoa
The Usos and Solo Sikoa are not Roman’s first cousins, even though WWE calls them his cousins. Their father Rikishi is the son of Elevera Fatu, the sister of Roman’s father Sika. That makes Rikishi Roman’s first cousin, and Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso and Solo Sikoa Roman’s first cousins once removed: one generation further from the shared grandparent, Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi.
Rikishi’s younger brother Umaga (Edward Fatu), who died in 2009, was also Roman’s first cousin. Our relationship calculator explains “once removed” and works out any pairing in your own family.
Is Roman Reigns related to The Rock?
Not by blood. In the 1960s Reverend Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi, Roman’s grandfather, and the wrestler Peter Maivia made a blood-brother pact, a Samoan custom that joined their families as one. Peter Maivia is The Rock’s grandfather: his daughter Ata married the wrestler Rocky Johnson, and their son is Dwayne Johnson.
Because of that bond the two families call each other cousins, and The Rock has appeared alongside Roman as part of the Bloodline story. On a family tree, though, the Maivia-Johnson family is a separate tree joined by friendship and custom, which is why the chart draws it apart.
Other wrestlers in the Anoaʻi family
The family has produced more wrestlers than any other. Besides those on the chart, it includes Yokozuna (Rodney Anoaʻi), a WWF champion and a nephew of Afa and Sika; Afa’s sons Samu and Afa Jr. (Manu); Lance Anoaʻi; and Nia Jax and Jacob Fatu, who are also described as cousins. Jimmy Uso’s wife Naomi, a WWE champion, married into the family. Afa’s Wild Samoan Training Center trained many of them.
The Bloodline: real family and storyline
WWE’s Bloodline storyline, which began in 2020, is built on real relationships: Roman, the Usos and Solo are family, and their history with The Rock is real. Others who joined the faction on screen, such as Paul Heyman and Sami Zayn, are not related. Mapping the real tree is a good example of separating fact from story, the same skill genealogists use when family legends meet records; see our guide to finding your ancestors.
Who’s who in the Roman Reigns family tree, generation by generation
Everyone in the chart above, oldest generation first. People who married into the family are listed with their partner’s generation. Photos are freely licensed and credited below; children are shown without photos.
Generation 1
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Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi
Reverend, family patriarch
Made a blood-brother pact with the wrestler Peter Maivia, which the families still honour.
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Peter Maivia
1937 – 1982 · “High Chief”
Blood brother of Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi; The Rock’s grandfather.
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Lia Maivia
died 2008 · Wrestling promoter
Ran Polynesian Pro Wrestling in Hawaii after Peter’s death.
Generation 2
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Afa Anoaʻi
Wild Samoans · WWE Hall of Fame
Tag-team champion with his brother Sika; ran a wrestling school that trained many family members.
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Sika Anoaʻi
1945 – 2024 · Wild Samoans · WWE Hall of Fame
Roman Reigns’ father.
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Patricia Anoaʻi
Roman’s mother.
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Elevera Fatu (née Anoaʻi)
Afa and Sika’s sister.
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Solofa Fatu Sr.
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Ata Johnson (née Maivia)
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Rocky Johnson
1944 – 2020 · WWE Hall of Fame
With Tony Atlas, one half of the first Black WWF tag-team champions.
Generation 3
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Samula Anoaʻi
born 1963 · “Samu”, tag-team wrestler
Afa’s son.
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Matthew Anoaʻi
1970 – 2017 · “Rosey”
Roman’s older brother, a WWE tag-team champion with The Hurricane.
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Leati Joseph Anoaʻi
born 1985 · “Roman Reigns”
Former Georgia Tech defensive lineman; WWE’s Tribal Chief.
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Solofa Fatu Jr.
born 1965 · “Rikishi” · WWE Hall of Fame
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Edward Fatu
1973 – 2009 · “Umaga”
Rikishi’s younger brother.
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Dwayne Johnson
born 1972 · “The Rock”
Wrestler and actor; treated as family by the Anoaʻis.
Generation 4
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Jonathan Fatu
born 1985 · “Jimmy Uso”
Twin of Jey; together The Usos.
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Trinity Fatu
born 1987 · “Naomi”, WWE champion
Jimmy’s wife.
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Joshua Fatu
born 1985 · “Jey Uso”
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Joseph Fatu
born 1993 · “Solo Sikoa”
The Usos’ younger brother.
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Questions about the Roman Reigns family tree
Who is Roman Reigns’ father?
Sika Anoaʻi, one half of the Wild Samoans tag team with his brother Afa. Sika was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 and died in 2024.
How are the Usos related to Roman Reigns?
Jimmy and Jey Uso are Roman Reigns’ first cousins once removed. Their father Rikishi is Roman’s first cousin: Rikishi’s mother and Roman’s father were siblings.
Is The Rock Roman Reigns’ cousin?
Not by blood. Their grandfathers, Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi and Peter Maivia, were blood brothers by a Samoan pact, so the families consider each other family and use the word cousin.
Is Solo Sikoa Roman Reigns’ brother?
No. Solo Sikoa is the younger brother of Jimmy and Jey Uso and a son of Rikishi, which makes him Roman’s first cousin once removed.
Did Roman Reigns have a brother?
Yes, Matthew Anoaʻi, who wrestled in WWE as Rosey and won the World Tag Team Championship with The Hurricane. He died in 2017.
What is Roman Reigns’ real name?
Leati Joseph Anoaʻi, usually known as Joe.
Can I make a family tree that shows chosen family?
Yes. In our editor you can record blood relationships, adoption, guardianship and step-relationships, and add notes explaining bonds like a blood-brother pact.
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Sources and notes
This family tree shows publicly reported relationships in the Anoaʻi and Maivia families and is not affiliated with WWE or the families. Wrestling storylines sometimes describe relationships loosely; the chart follows the family’s birth relationships and explains the blood-brother bond separately.
Photo credits (14)
- Afa Anoaʻi: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Sika Anoaʻi: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Samula Anoaʻi: w:Flickr user swiftwj, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Matthew Anoaʻi: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Leati Joseph Anoaʻi: Diego Serrano, CC BY 2.0
- Solofa Fatu Jr.: TSGT Lias M. Zunzanyika, USAF, Public domain
- Edward Fatu: Gregory Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jonathan Fatu: Carter Sterling, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Trinity Fatu: Sleeper11, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Joshua Fatu: Diego Serrano, CC BY 2.0
- Joseph Fatu: Carter Sterling, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Peter Maivia: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Rocky Johnson: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Dwayne Johnson: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
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