Romola
Romola was last recorded in 1940, when 5 babies were given it; 56 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Romola mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Romola is “a female given name from Italian.”
From Italian Romola, feminine form of Romolo, from Latin Romulus.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Romola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,903, in 1940; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1927, the peak
Romola peaked in 1927, when 10 girls were given it, #3,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 5 | #4,903 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,118 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,241 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,750 | 5.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,751 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,916 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,452 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,022 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,022 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Romola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romola, and how old are they?
An estimated 3 Americans named Romola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,679 babies since 1880, Romola is the second most given (3.3% 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 Romola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Yoshiko | 1,331 |
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 Romola and names like it
- Compare Romola and RomeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRomola peaked in 1927.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Romola: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Romola.
- Names starting with RMost given first.