Meaning not yet researched.
Rome: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 694 in 2025. Its best rank was #451 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #451 in 2024; #452 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Rome in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#452 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #451.
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Rome: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 694 boys in 2025. Peak: #451 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 695 (2024).
In 2025, 694 US boys were named Rome, making it the 452nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #451 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 695 boys named Rome in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #451, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 695. For comparison, it was #1,413 in 2015 and #2,734 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rome in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 6,075 US babies have been given the name, 8.3% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,218 babies named Rome.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,581 US boys were named Rome; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 695. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,461 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rome ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #207 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Romeo (26,864 babies since 1880), Romel (2,486 babies since 1880) and Romi (1,948 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roam, Rom and Rohm are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Roam (64), Rom (57), Rohm (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rome in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #207 | — |
| Utah | 24 | #220 | — |
| New Mexico | 9 | #231 | — |
| Arizona | 31 | #262 | — |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #330 | — |
| Colorado | 19 | #343 | — |
| California | 99 | #356 | #838 |
| Illinois | 30 | #358 | — |
| Nevada | 9 | #358 | #495 |
| Iowa | 10 | #370 | — |
| Indiana | 18 | #406 | — |
| Florida | 48 | #409 | #1,494 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #421 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #422 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #424 | — |
| New Jersey | 18 | #446 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #461 | — |
| Ohio | 23 | #466 | — |
| Washington | 16 | #470 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #487 | — |
| Texas | 67 | #508 | #2,074 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #523 | #793 |
| Georgia | 20 | #535 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #542 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #545 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #553 | — |
| New York | 29 | #555 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #564 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #583 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #589 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #670 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #673 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #682 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #722 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #852 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #865 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,640 | 694 | #452 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,742 | 695 | #451 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,817 | 574 | #516 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,880 | 421 | #654 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,998 | 315 | #784 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,426 | 222 | #971 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,424 | 209 | #1,002 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,429 | 179 | #1,097 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,305 | 130 | #1,372 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,535 | 142 | #1,285 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,415 | 122 | #1,413 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,984 | 125 | #1,373 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,118 | 108 | #1,509 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,093 | 90 | #1,696 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,022 | 109 | #1,492 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,061 | 71 | #1,969 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,911 | 82 | #1,821 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,076 | 77 | #1,892 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,150 | 78 | #1,858 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,359 | 60 | #2,169 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,109 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,409 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,703 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #3,002 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,045 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,035 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,566 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,275 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,706 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,058 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,247 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,246 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,785 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,924 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,967 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,637 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,350 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,240 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,644 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,641 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,045 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,155 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,377 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,080 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,910 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,562 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,013 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,225 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,619 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,088 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,984 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,110 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,292 | 18 | #2,260 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,839 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,715 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,059 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,897 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,943 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,854 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,391 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,593 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,676 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,514 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #3,000 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,614 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,610 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,120 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,732 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,137 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,036 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,734 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,633 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,969 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,693 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,825 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,928 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,469 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,905 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,344 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,707 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,733 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,506 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,409 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,562 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,449 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,132 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,127 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,132 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,732 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,682 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,063 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,489 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,927 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,340 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,201 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,495 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,557 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,283 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,470 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #756 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,222 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #691 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #687 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,096 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #1,016 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #822 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).