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Roma vs Romulo

American parents have registered 8,862 Romas since 1880, against 842 Romulos. Roma is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Roma against Romulo, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Roma Romulo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Roma for 140 years and Romulo for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Roma Romulo
Total US births 8,862842
Most in one year 18418
Babies in 2025 1518
Estimated living today 3,900670
Median age today 5136
Peak year 19301993
Best rank 508th girls3,501st boys
Rank in 2025 1,493rd8,910th
First recorded 18831912
Girls / boys 8,286 / 5760 / 842

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Romas alive today are over 51; half the Romulos are over 36. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Roma and Romulo.