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Romaan

Boys' name

Roman, associated with Rome

Romaan has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Romaan, 2022

1 in 484,000

Romaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romaan: meaning, origin, and history

Roman, associated with Rome

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romaan means

Romaan means “Roman, associated with Rome”, associated with Romanus.

Origin, language, and formation

Romaan is used in Dutch.

Romaan comes through Latin Romanus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roman.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Romaan is pronounced /roːˈmaːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Romaan between 2015 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,623 in 2022.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Romaan?

Romaan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 249,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romaan 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romaans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Romaan 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,623
2022

Spellings of Romaan

Romaan is not the most common spelling — Roman is, with 50.2% against Romaan's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Romaan around the world

Where Romaan 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.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Romaan 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
#10,623
2022
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Romaan

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

RomeirRomareRomereRomaleZiyaanEzhaanRomaneRomelioRomioBivaanMahaanZahaanRomaroRomannYamaanSahaanNavaanZehaanOrhaanDhyaanIzyaanAyzaanRomaniRomondo

Sibling names for Romaan

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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