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Rome

About 6,075 American babies have been named Rome since 1882, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 452nd. About 5,700 Romes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rome boys named Rome

By the numbers

Total US births
6,075
Estimated living today
5,700
Median age today
4
Peak year
2024
Best rank
450th
Rank in 2025
452nd
First recorded
1882
Girls / boys
503 / 5,572

How old the living Romes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,075 babies given the name since 1882, about 5,700 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 4,800 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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 Romes

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

Where Rome is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rome is most concentrated in Utah (5.7×), Nevada (5.1×), Arizona (3.3×), Florida (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Rome peaked:

All the names of 2024

Rome elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rome 1,550 191st
England and Wales girls Rome 43 3,318th
Scotland boys Rome 38 307th
France boys Romé +1 spelling 15 5,128th
Ireland boys Rome 12 584th

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.

Related names

Rome 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.