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Rom

Boys' name

Height

Rom has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Rom, 2024

1 in 478,000

Rom over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rom: meaning, origin, and history

Height

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rom means

Rom means “height”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rom is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʁom/ for Rom.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Rom between 1939 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,288 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rom?

Rom had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rom sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rom was born before 2017 — so the typical Rom is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Rom rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,288
1960

Rom around the world

Where Rom ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rom by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,288
1960
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rom

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rom

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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