Entry № 8795 · Latin origin

Roman Roman — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROH-muhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"From Rome (Roman Polanski; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "from rome (roman polanski; modern unisex)".

Roman is from the Latin Romanus (from Rome) — the imperial Roman heritage. Saint Roman of Antioch — early Christian martyr.

From Rome (Roman Polanski; modern unisex) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Roman
Transliteration
Roman
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊ.mən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Roman stands.

Roman does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Romans before her.

Real people
Roman Polanski
Polish-French filmmaker.
born 1933
In fiction
Roman Holiday
1953 Audrey Hepburn film.
1953

Names connected to Roman.

The number behind Roman.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Roman reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.