girls:
5 births since 1929
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
529 births since 1911
#4057 (11th percentile)
overall:
534 births since 1911
#7205 (7th percentile)
The name Romain is the #7,205 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 534 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 6.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,057 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 529 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1929.
Romain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Romain is available in 73 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Romain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Romain reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Romain ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 15.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Romain reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #592) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Romain".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Romaine. View all variations of Romaine.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Romain", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Romaine" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Romaine..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Romain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Romain is pronounced as roh-MAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-muhn, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Romain? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Romain. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Romain, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW0 M EY1 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker