Popularity of the name Roman, 1882–2025

Roman has never been more popular than it is now: in 2025, 6,162 boys were named Roman, about 1 in 280 boys born in the U.S. that year, ranking #42. In all, Social Security counts 104,653 boys named Roman since 1882. Social Security’s records also list 478 girls named Roman.

Peak year

2025

Rank in 2025

#42

Babies in 2025

6,162

Total since 1882

104,653

Where it stands now

In the past decade the name climbed from #102 in 2015 to #42 in 2025: 3,889 boys got it in 2015, and 6,162 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Its best decade is the 2020s so far, when 30,269 boys were named Roman, #62 for the decade. It started at #713 in the 1880s.

Every 20 years in the records: 20 in 1900 (#534), 248 in 1920 (#379), 124 in 1940 (#521), 140 in 1960 (#662), 258 in 1980 (#535), 906 in 2000 (#317) and 4,491 in 2020 (#77).

Highs and lows

The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,162, in 2025. Its best rank, #42, came in its peak year.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1882 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 boys named Roman, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.