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Romas

Boys' name

English equivalent of Roman

Romas has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1955, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Romas, 1973

1 in 603,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romas: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Roman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romas means

Romas is a English equivalent of Roman.

Origin, language, and formation

Romas is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roman.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Romas is pronounced [ˈrɔmɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Romas between 1927 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1955; its best national rank was #3,158 in 1956.

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 Romas?

Romas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 603,000
5 of 3,016,706 births
Among boys only
1 in 312,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romas 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 1973 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 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romas was born before 1953 — so the typical Romas is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
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1950s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Romas 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 1955 (8)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,158
1956

Spellings of Romas

Romas is not the most common spelling — Thomas is, with 82.1% against Romas'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.

Romas around the world

Where Romas 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
    1956–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Romas 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
#3,158
1956
Peak year
1955
8 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Romas

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

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Sibling names for Romas

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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