# Roman (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/roman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹoʊ.mən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 105,131 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 104,653 / 478 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18,033, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Rom(e) + -an. Doublet of Romano. Displaced native Romish. * In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Medieval Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 11,021 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11,092 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,502 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,574 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,426 |
| 2016 | 27 | 5,102 |
| 2017 | 22 | 5,791 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,738 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,521 |
| 2020 | 28 | 4,731 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,489 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6,170 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,971 |
| 2024 | 27 | 5,002 |
| 2025 | 23 | 5,523 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,466 | 158 |
| 2012 | 2,577 | 159 |
| 2013 | 2,886 | 136 |
| 2014 | 3,481 | 113 |
| 2015 | 3,889 | 102 |
| 2016 | 4,222 | 98 |
| 2017 | 4,282 | 91 |
| 2018 | 4,390 | 86 |
| 2019 | 4,919 | 72 |
| 2020 | 4,491 | 77 |
| 2021 | 4,571 | 74 |
| 2022 | 4,740 | 68 |
| 2023 | 4,803 | 66 |
| 2024 | 5,502 | 52 |
| 2025 | 6,162 | 42 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 328 | 172 |
| 2012 | 467 | 133 |
| 2013 | 448 | 133 |
| 2014 | 557 | 110 |
| 2015 | 763 | 88 |
| 2016 | 737 | 92 |
| 2017 | 871 | 75 |
| 2018 | 1,018 | 62 |
| 2019 | 1,115 | 59 |
| 2020 | 1,776 | 28 |
| 2021 | 1,923 | 23 |
| 2022 | 1,640 | 30 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | 32 |
| 2024 | 1,454 | 32 |
| 2025 | 1,420 | 27 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Ро́ман
- Catalan: Romà
- Chinese: 羅曼 /罗曼
- Czech: Roman
- Dutch: Roman, Romaan
- French: Romain
- German: Roman
- Hebrew: רוֹמָן
- Hungarian: Román
- Latvian: Romāns
- Lithuanian: Ròmas /Rõmas
- Polish: Roman
- Portuguese: Romão
- Russian: Рома́н
- Slovak: Roman
- Spanish: Román
- Ukrainian: Роман

## People named Roman

- Roman Polanski, French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
- Roman Herzog, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1934–2017)
- Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine association football player
- Roman Weidenfeller, German association football player (born 1980)
- Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
- Roman Šebrle, Czech high jumper and decathlete
- Roman Eremenko, Finnish footballer
- Roman Hubník, Czech soccer player and soccer representant
- Roman Lob, German musician
- Roman Kienast, Austrian footballer
- Roman Coppola, filmmaker, son of Francis Ford Coppola (born 1965)
- Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (1900–1939)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.