Rome

Where Rome comes from

Rome hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Rome Flynn born
    American actor, model and musician
  3. 2002
    Rome Odunze born
    American football player
  4. 2024
    Peak, #450
    695 babies named Rome — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rome Flynn · American actor, model and musician, born 1991
  • Rome Odunze · American football player, born 2002
  • Rome Kanda · Japanese actor, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.