Romana
Romana was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,574 among girls’ names; 1,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Romana mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Romana is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Romana?
#14,574 among girls’ names, 2025
Romana rose from #16,037 in 2015 to #14,574 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
53 babies in 1928, the peak
Romana peaked in 1928, when 53 girls were given it, #1,037 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,574 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,121 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,066 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,193 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,421 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,489 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,531 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,821 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,854 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,037 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,271 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,300 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,368 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,258 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,242 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,953 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,672 | 5.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,624 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,519 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,531 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,936 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,019 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,143 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,122 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,797 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,313 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,288 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,492 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,344 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,915 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,726 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,052 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,327 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,530 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,207 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,994 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,826 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,450 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,731 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,871 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,683 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,219 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,035 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,204 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,376 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,536 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,375 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,655 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,209 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,043 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,240 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,763 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,439 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,692 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,552 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,557 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,022 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,655 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,290 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,737 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,290 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,799 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,224 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,836 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,712 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,703 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,662 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,129 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,174 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,655 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,252 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,382 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,832 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,545 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,271 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,468 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,865 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,106 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,429 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,389 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,507 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,948 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,193 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,743 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,111 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,489 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,830 | 18.1 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,704 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,708 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,673 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,731 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,454 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,365 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 53 | #1,037 | 46.0 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,399 | 28.5 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,817 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,569 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,402 | 28.0 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,154 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,886 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,664 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,155 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,365 | 29.2 |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,020 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,291 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,732 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,235 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,529 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,397 | 28.8 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,528 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,156 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,722 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,583 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,524 | 26.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,618 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,302 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,887 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,157 | 39.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,993 | 18.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,179 | 16.7 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,617 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,505 | 27.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Romana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 122 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romana, and how old are they?
An estimated 945 Americans named Romana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 36 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,867 people named Romana (2,852 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,015 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times 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.
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 Romana born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 500 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| California | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Romana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romana is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.5 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 Romana 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 19,576 babies since 1880, Romana is the fourth most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 588 babies (1.0%), 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 Romana
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 Romana and names like it
- Compare Romana and RominaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRomana peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romana since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Romana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Romana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Romana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.