girls:
3.1k births since 1887
#3098 (46th percentile)
boys:
982 births since 1912
#3610 (21st percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1887
#4268 (45th percentile)
The name Romaine is the #4,268 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,118 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 44.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,098 (45.8% percentile) for all time with 3,136 births since 1887. For boys, it ranks #3,610 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 982 births since 1912.
Romaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Romaine is available in 125 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (93 years for boys and 92 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 Romaine has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Romaine were girls. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for girls (83.7% girls from 1887 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (82.7% boys from 1977 to 2023).
For girls, Romaine reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #520) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 76 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
For boys, Romaine reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #513) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Romaine ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 21.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Romaine".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Romaine.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Romaine", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Romaine.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Romaine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Romaine is pronounced as roh-MAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-mayn, at 20.5% 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 Romaine? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Romaine. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Romaine, 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