Roma
About 8,862 American babies have been named Roma since 1883, most of them around 1930. In 2025 it ranked 1,493rd. About 3,900 Romas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roma boys named Roma
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,862
- Estimated living today
- 3,900
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 508th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,493rd
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 8,286 / 576
How old the living Romas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,862 babies given the name since 1883, about 3,900 are alive — 44 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Romas
- Roma Dasgupta (1931–2014)Indian actress
- Roma Downey (born 1960)Irish actress and Emmy nominated producer and author from Derry, Northern Ireland
- Roma Maffia (born 1955)American actress
- Romà Forns (1885–1942)Spanish footballer
- Roma Ryan (born 1950)Irish writer
- Roma Gąsiorowska (born 1981)Polish actress
- Roma Agrawal (born 1983)British structural engineer
- Roma Asrani (born 1984)Indian actress
People named Roma with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roma is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roma is most concentrated in Nebraska (7.8×), Idaho (4.3×), Utah (4.0×), Oklahoma (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular girls’ names the year Roma peaked:
Roma elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Roma | 1,002 | 606th |
| Poland girls | Roma | 522 birth registrations | 169th |
| France girls | Roma | 510 | 471st |
| Spain girls | Roma | 268 | 100th |
| Scotland girls | Roma | 120 | 339th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Roma | 67 | 254th |
| England and Wales boys | Roma | 36 | 3,011th |
| France boys | Roma | 20 | 5,531st |
| Switzerland girls | Roma | 13 | 1,209th |
| Belgium girls | Roma | 12 | 1,023rd |
| Ireland girls | Roma | 12 | 374th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Roma: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Roma | 4 | 0.000% | 993rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Roma | 8 | 0.002% | 529th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Roma | 1 | 0.002% | 168th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Roma: rank by region
In 2025, Roma was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Roma | 452 | 5 |
In 2025, Roma was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Roma | 167 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Roma | 168 | 5 |
| Mazowieckie | Roma | 145 | 12 |
| Śląskie | Roma | 174 | 5 |
| Wielkopolskie | Roma | 191 | 4 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Roma among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Roma | 9 | 17 |
| Finland boys | Roma | 10 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Roma lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 465 men called Roma and 1,191 women called Roma were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Roma | 32 | 0.136 | 628 |
| Girona | Roma | 45 | 0.108 | 716 |
| Barcelona | Roma | 181 | 0.062 | 967 |
| Tarragona | Roma | 22 | 0.050 | 1,231 |
| Valencia/València | Roma | 29 | 0.021 | 2,218 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Roma | 20 | 0.020 | 2,702 |
Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Roma | 52 | 0.081 | 693 |
| Segovia | Roma | 6 | 0.076 | 913 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Roma | 74 | 0.072 | 1,025 |
| Tarragona | Roma | 31 | 0.071 | 1,054 |
| Sevilla | Roma | 71 | 0.070 | 701 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Roma | 22 | 0.070 | 985 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Roma against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.