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Romano

Boys' name

Dress, through romano

Romano has been given to 322 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1971, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Romano, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romano: meaning, origin, and history

Dress, through romano

Latin

What Romano means

Romano belongs to the name family reached through Romano → romano. Its meaning is “dress”.

Origin, language, and formation

Romano is used in Cebuano and Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Romano comes through Spanish romano and Latin rōmānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include romano.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Romano is pronounced /roˈma.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 322 boys were recorded with the name Romano between 1922 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1971; its best national rank was #2,645 in 1963.

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 Romano?

Romano 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 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romano 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romano was born before 1976 — so the typical Romano is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Romano 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 1971 (13)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,645
1963

Spellings of Romano

Romano is not the most common spelling — Roman is, with 29.4% against Romano's 0.09%.

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 Romano is used

Across 1910–2025, Romano was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Romano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Romano around the world

Where Romano 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1923–2023
    #6,399
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1997–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1952–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Romano 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
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Best rank ever
#2,645
1963
Peak year
1971
13 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
322
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Romano

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

RomariRomaniRomirRomeyRomuloRomulusRomynRomenRomarRomeloMilanoRomneyRomoloRomellRommelRomereRomeroRomainElianoRomoneRomyRomanceRommieRomaine

Sibling names for Romano

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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