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Roman
Pronounced /ˈɹəʊ.mən/
Rank in 2024
#52
Born in 2024
5,474
Peak year
2024 · #52
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,474 boys were named Roman, about 1 in every 313.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It first shows up in the records in 1882.
- 98,435 boys have been named Roman since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Roman per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 2.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,984 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Silent: 2,340 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,961 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,557 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,144 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 24,094 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 52,124 babies, 2.40 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Rom(e) + -an. Doublet of Romano. Displaced native Romish. In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Medieval Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos).
- A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /ˈɹəʊ.mən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Roman, CC BY-SA 4.0.