Romain vs Romona
American parents have registered 5,175 Romonas since 1880, against 541 Romains. Romona is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Romain Romona
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 115 years in which either name was published, Romona for 86 years and Romain for 29 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Romain | Romona | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 541 | 5,175 |
| Most in one year | 14 | 148 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 360 | 3,400 |
| Median age today | 27 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1990 | 1955 |
| Best rank | 3,971st boys | 788th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 14,942nd |
| First recorded | 1911 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 536 | 5,175 / 0 |
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 Romonas alive today are over 63; half the Romains are over 27. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Romain and Romona.