Romayne
Romayne was last recorded in 1969, when 9 babies were given it; 1,135 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,358, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1928, the peak
Romayne peaked in 1928, when 47 girls were given it, #1,109 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 9 | #5,358 | 5.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,377 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,730 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,325 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,093 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,950 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,968 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,277 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,755 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,663 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 8 | #4,573 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,678 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,513 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,253 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,904 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,833 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,546 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,430 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,714 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,116 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,231 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,294 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,509 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,085 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,676 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,317 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,984 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,682 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,259 | 31.5 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,600 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,509 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,159 | 36.5 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,194 | 34.8 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,286 | 31.1 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,103 | 40.3 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,109 | 40.8 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,354 | 30.2 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,709 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,290 | 31.2 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,319 | 30.4 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,587 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,640 | 22.5 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,470 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,398 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,441 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,406 | 26.8 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,398 | 26.8 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,242 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,513 | 24.4 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,377 | 28.9 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,589 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,603 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,530 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,324 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,177 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,372 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,619 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,303 | 33.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,828 | 21.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Romayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,135 Americans recorded as Romayne, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Romayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Romayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 473 people named Romayne (405 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 341 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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.
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 Romayne born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 571 | not ranked | 6.4× |
Where Romayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romayne is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 6.4 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 Romayne 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,000 babies since 1880, Romayne is the third most given (16% of them).
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 Romayne
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 Romayne and names like it
- Compare Romayne and RomaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRomayne peaked in 1928.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Romayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Romayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.