Roma
Roma was given to 143 girls in 2025, #1,496 among girls’ names; 8,862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,810 Americans named Roma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 13 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roma mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roma is “a female given name from Latin of English-speakers.” Its etymology gives the sense “Rome” (Roma).
From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.
/ˈɹoʊmə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roma?
#1,496 among girls’ names, 2025
Roma rose from #3,833 in 2015 to #1,496 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 89.0 per million.
184 babies in 1930, the peak
Roma peaked in 1930, when 184 babies were given it (174 girls, #509 among girls’ names). The 151 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,695 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,697 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,154 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,264 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,545 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,748 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,281 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,291 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,511 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,833 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,766 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,898 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,102 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,657 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,459 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,171 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,156 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,521 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,662 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,379 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,392 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,449 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,528 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,370 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,360 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,473 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,520 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,429 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,941 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,185 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,534 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,914 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,952 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,477 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,851 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,799 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,391 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,411 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,954 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,124 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,256 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,248 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,591 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,494 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,306 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,123 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,914 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,528 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,762 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,666 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,433 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,481 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,492 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 72 | #1,232 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 77 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 73 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 62 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 78 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 64 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 80 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 94 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 88 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 73 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 116 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 92 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 94 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 123 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 113 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 163 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 114 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 131 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 135 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 139 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 126 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 140 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 129 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 174 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 162 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1928 | 126 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 137 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 132 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 142 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 157 | #591 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 130 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 171 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 132 | #645 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 136 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 133 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 142 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1917 | 118 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 155 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 122 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 82 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 67 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 74 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 70 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 47 | #616 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 45 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 36 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 39 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 33 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 38 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1904 | 31 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 26 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 18 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 37 | #506 | 0.15 |
| 1900 | 29 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 16 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 15 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 19 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 14 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 18 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 14 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 13 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 13 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 15 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 12 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 9 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 14 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 12 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 7 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 8 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,862 Americans recorded as Roma, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 143 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roma, and how old are they?
3,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 43% of the 8,862 Americans ever recorded as Roma. The median Roma alive today is 50 years old; half are between 13 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 5,222 people named Roma (4,811 women and girls, 411 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,797 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 625 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 979 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 343 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 593 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 988 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Roma born?
The states with the most babies named Roma are Texas, California and Ohio, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 352 | #2,011 | 0.6× |
| California | 281 | #1,220 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 248 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 246 | #1,214 | 0.6× |
| New York | 207 | #1,141 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 203 | #1,362 | 0.4× |
| Nebraska | 200 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Oklahoma | 159 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 146 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 133 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Roma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roma is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Roma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,889 babies since 1880, Roma is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 1,025 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roma
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Roma and names like it
- Compare Roma and RomyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sRoma peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roma since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Roma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Roma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Roma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.