Roma
Roma is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 121 births. Its best rank was 495th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1210.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1930174 births
- Best rank
- #495in 1911
- Since 1883
- 8,711people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,143 girls have been named Roma in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 174 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 568 boys have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Roma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 67 | |
| 1890s | 146 | |
| 1900s | 332 | |
| 1910s | 1,010 | |
| 1920s | 1,425 | |
| 1930s | 1,364 | |
| 1940s | 889 | |
| 1950s | 664 | |
| 1960s | 410 | |
| 1970s | 175 | |
| 1980s | 157 | |
| 1990s | 224 | |
| 2000s | 373 | |
| 2010s | 425 | |
| 2020s | 482 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Roma was the 509th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Roma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hellenpeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Rebapeak 1925
- Winonapeak 2024
- Novellapeak 1923
- Rubypeak 1924
- Queenpeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.