Roman

What Roman means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Roman yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Roman?

US: Rising: up from #102 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #88 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 6,162 boys got the name (#42 that year). First in the US records in 1882.

How common

• About 1 in 277 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 192 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 175 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (10.88 per 1,000 boys), HI (8.57 per 1,000 boys), AK (6.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Roman is #42 in the US and #27 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Roman were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ramon288 US
• Rahman24 US · 7 E&W
• Romyn30 US
• Ryman20 US
• Romen15 US
• Ramin9 US
• Romaine8 US
• Rmani8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Roman

Boys

• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Augustus#407“majestic, venerable”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*

For a sister

• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Roman’s. Rank is US 2025.