Roman
1.45k
Babies in 2024
+161%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 1.92k
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Roman
Roman is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (1,454) are up 161% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Roman reached its peak in 2021, when 1,923 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #23 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,454 represents 76% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 16,609 boys have been officially registered with the name Roman in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 13,335 boys were registered with the name, starting from 557 in 2014 and ending at 1,454 in 2024.