Romain
Romain is a boy's name that peaked in 1990, when it was the 3,971st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 360 Romains are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Romain boys named Romain
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 541
- Estimated living today
- 360
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 3,971st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 536
How old the living Romains are
born that year still alive today
Of the 541 babies given the name since 1911, about 360 are alive — 66 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Romains
- Romain Rolland (1866–1944)French author
- Romain Gary (1914–1980)French writer and diplomat
- Romain Grosjean (born 1986)French and Swiss racing driver
- Romain Saïss (born 1990)Moroccan association football player
- Romain Duris (born 1974)French actor
- Romain Bardet (born 1990)French racing cyclist
- Romain Cannone (born 1997)French fencer
- Romain Hamouma (born 1987)French footballer
People named Romain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Romain peaked:
Romain elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Romain | 193,025 | 3rd |
| Belgium boys | Romain | 6,287 | 14th |
| Switzerland boys | Romain | 1,236 | 79th |
| England and Wales boys | Romain | 147 | 1,248th |
| France girls | Romain | 40 | 1,331st |
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.
Romain: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Romain | 39 | 0.003% | 528th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Romain | 1,197 | 0.275% | 11th |
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, Romain is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.32% of children were given it – 224 of them.
Romain: rank by region
In 2025, Romain was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Romain | 105 | 54 |
| Wallonia | Romain | 106 | 28 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Romain appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (23rd), Province of Liège (71st), Province of East Flanders (76th), Province of Namur (78th) and Province of Hainaut (174th).
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.
Romain 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 boys | Romain | — | 9 |
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.
Related names
Romain 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.