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Baby name
Roman
Boy
Origin of the name
Roman comes from the Latin Romanus, “Roman.”
Rising name
104,653births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 42rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Roman are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Roman is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Roman is most common in Nevada (3 times), Arizona (2.6) and New Mexico (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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