Roma

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Roma: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Roma: Recorded since 1973, with a gap of 22 years, it reached #254 in 2005, and it stood at #407 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#254highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Roma's record

Absent from every published list for 22 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#1365
1998	#1392
1999	#952
2000	#1250
2001	#1520
2002	#1032
2003	#876
2004	#1072
2005	#1121
2006	#890
2007	#1126
2008	#1019
2009	#1209
2010	#1218
2011	#1196
2012	#1150
2013	#1291
2014	#1411
2015	#1057
2016	#837
2017	#785
2018	#689
2019	#682
2020	#655
2021	#683
2022	#606
2023	#677
2024	#751

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 31 years from 1973 to 2003.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #541 among girls in Scotland, #751 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1973–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1973
First recorded at #374 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1973 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #254 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2000–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #751 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Roma appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 953 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1973.

Roma across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Roma's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#374 (1973)	#374 (1973)	#655 (2003)	3 of 31	12 (1973–2003)	6 (1973)
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#606 (2022)	#751 (2024)	29 of 29	953 (1996–2024)	63 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#348 (2000)	#254 (2005)	#407 (2024)	17 of 25	67 (2000–2024)	6 (2005)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#3011 (2018)	#4991 (2023)	8 of 15	31 (2009–2023)	6 (2018)

Roma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Roma in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	67	4 of 10	17
2000s	234	10 of 10	23
2010s	373	10 of 10	37
2020sbusiest	279	5 of 10	56

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 56 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Roma appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1973 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #254 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Roma's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#751	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#677	53	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#606	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#683	56	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#682	57	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#689	58	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1218	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1019	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1126	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#890	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#876	29	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1032	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#324	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#309	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#254	6	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#343	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1973 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #254, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 63 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 22 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Romaan · #2005, 22y
Romain · #1248, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jayce · #254, 29y
Ajay · #257, 29y
Lilly-Mae · #257, 25y
Minnie · #251, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Aodan · #254, 20y
Glynn · #254, 13y
Kris · #254, 39y
Pierre · #254, 35y

Roma was ranked #254 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Roma and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Roma without appearing here.

Roma moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1032 and #2301.
Kristy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1032 and #2301.
Vicki Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1392 and #1319 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #952 and #1970.
Kylie Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1411 and #1094 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1057 and #1783.

Moved ahead of Roma

Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2228.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1209 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1218 and #773.
Astrid Compare
In 2006 they stood at #890 and #928 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1126 and #693.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1250 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #1107.

Moved the opposite way to Roma

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Roma went from #1392 to #677 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Evelyn Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Roma went from #284 to #407 while Evelyn went from #284 to #75.
Freya Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Roma went from #284 to #407 while Freya went from #185 to #10.
Maisie Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Roma went from #284 to #407 while Maisie went from #331 to #22.

Moved the same way as Roma

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Roma went from #1365 to #751 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Roma went from #1365 to #751 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Roma went from #1520 to #751 and Harper from #3262 to #22.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Roma went from #1291 to #751 and Fiadh from #5742 to #374.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1973 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #254 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Roma

Roma at a glance

What stands out in Roma's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Roma across 4 official records

Roma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Roma appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Roma

Roma and the names beside it

Roma moved ahead of

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Roma at a glance

What stands out in Roma's record

Roma across 4 official records

Roma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Roma appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Roma

Roma and the names beside it

Roma moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Roma

Moved the opposite way to Roma

Moved the same way as Roma