Roma
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew: 'exalted, high'; town in Lesotho near Maseru
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roma is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 64K
- GYGuyana1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 329 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Roema in PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew: 'exalted, high'; town in Lesotho near Maseru
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Roema | 71 |
| US United States | 5,222 | 1 in 64K | 4.8K | Roma | 329 |
| AR Argentina | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2.9K | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 1,939 | 1 in 20K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Roma | 66 |
| MD Moldova | 185 | 1 in 18K | 185 | — | 12 |
| GY Guyana | 64 | 1 in 12K | 64 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
pomegranate
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, oriundo de Roma; etimologia do topônimo incerta
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, Latin; from Rome; a citizen of Rome
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
ROANNA, ROAN NE
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roma Bahnb. 1896DEGerman actress and voice actress (1896–1975)
- Eraldo Da Romab. 1900ITItalian film editor
- Roma Mitchellb. 1913AUAustralian judge (1913–2000)
- Suchitra Senb. 1931INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1931–2014)
- Antonio Romab. 1932ARArgentine footballer (1932-2013)
- Roma Ryanb. 1950GBIrish writer
- Roma Maffiab. 1955USAmerican actress
- Roma Downeyb. 1960GBIrish actress and Emmy nominated producer and author from Derry, Northern Ireland
- Nani Romab. 1972ESSpanish motorcycle racer
- Roma Gąsiorowskab. 1981PLPolish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #3,795 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.9K | #45 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #369 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.9K | #369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,516 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 411 | #3,795 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 185 | #705 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 143 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 64 | #530 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roma mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew: 'exalted, high'; town in Lesotho near Maseru Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Roma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Roma in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roema.
- Where is Roma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roma is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Roma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,222 people named Roma in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.