Romaine — unisex name

What the Data Says About Romaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,136 babies named Romaine between 1887 and 1991, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Romaine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 91 babies received it in a single year. Romaine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 982 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Romaine performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 774 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Romaine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 1,208 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Romaine in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Romaine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,136 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.