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Romana

#14,574 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Romanus

Romana has been given to 1,739 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #14,574 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Romana, 2025

1 in 553,000

Romana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Romanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romana means

Romana is a feminine form of Romanus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Romana is used in Italian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ro.ˈma.na/, /ˈro.ma.na/ and /ˈrɔ.ma.na/ for Romana.

Origin, language, and formation

Romana is used in Czech, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Romanus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Romana is pronounced [ˈromana].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,739 girls were recorded with the name Romana between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,037 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,421 in 2020 to #14,574 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,037 in 2015 to #14,574 in 2025.

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 Romana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,574
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romana was born before 1952 — so the typical Romana is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
906
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Romana 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,153
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,463
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 1928 (53)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,037
1928

Spellings of Romana

Romana is not the most common spelling — Ramona is, with 27.6% against Romana's 0.68%.

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.

Where Romana is used

Across 1910–2025, Romana was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 51,350 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Romana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Romana around the world

Where Romana 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
    1996–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1983–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • France
    1925–2023
    #4,641
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1954–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Romana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,574
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,153
Best rank ever
#1,037
1928
Peak year
1928
53 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,739
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Romana

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

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Sibling names for Romana

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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