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Romane

The boy's name Romane has been in the national records since 1938, with 32 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 30 Romanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Romane

By the numbers

Total US births
32
Estimated living today
30
Median age today
29
Peak year
1938
Best rank
3,175th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1938

How old the living Romanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 32 babies given the name since 1938, about 30 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.

Notable Romanes

People named Romane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1938

The most popular boys’ names the year Romane peaked:

All the names of 1938

Romane elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Romane 65,555 14th
Belgium girls Romane 3,177 55th
Switzerland girls Romane 650 162nd
France boys Romane 300 1,346th
England and Wales girls Romane 30 2,783rd

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.

Romane: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Romane 15 0.001% 683rd
French girls Switzerland Romane 635 0.146% 33rd

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.

By canton, Romane is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.33% of children were given it – 48 of them.

Romane: rank by region

In 2025, Romane was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Romane 753 6
Wallonia Romane 38 67

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Romane appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (21st), Province of Walloon Brabant (32nd), Province of Hainaut (33rd), Province of Namur (40th) and Province of Liège (46th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

Related names

Romane against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.