Roma
A Latin name meaning "of Rome," almost always given to girls. It stays rare: fewer than 2,000 women carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and last year only a few dozen newborns got it.
Roma Pronunciation
Roma is pronounced RO-mah (/ˈrɔma/).
What Roma means
Where Roma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roma comes from Latin, where it meant belonging to Rome, the city on the Tiber. The same root gives us Romana, its fuller feminine form, and Roman, the masculine name carried by popes and by Polish kings alike. To read Roma is to read a person marked as of Rome.
The name stayed compact while its relatives grew. Romana adds a syllable and a softer close; Roman turns the same stem toward boys. Roma sits between them, short and level. In a Polish class register it lands quickly, two syllables and done.
Latin adjectives like romanus and romana described things and people that came from the city or answered to it. From that plain sense, meaning Roman, meaning of Rome, the given name eventually took shape. The city faded into a first name.
Roma keeps its meaning close to the surface: rzymska, of Rome, from the city itself.
How many people are named Roma
1 in 12068 women in Poland is named Roma. 1,899 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #718 among female names.
Roma's popularity over time
36 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #414 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2007.
Where Roma is most popular
Roma is most popular in Masovian, 106% above the national average (92 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+37%) and Greater Poland (+22%). It is least common in Lublin and Warmian-Masurian, 85% and 78% below average respectively.
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Masovian92 girls born+106%
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Lesser Poland39 girls born+37%
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Greater Poland33 girls born+22%
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Łódź17 girls born+7%
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Silesian30 girls born+5%
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Lower Silesian20 girls born+1%
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Pomeranian18 girls born−3%
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West Pomeranian6 girls born−44%
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Subcarpathian7 girls born−54%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born−56%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−78%
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Lublin2 girls born−85%
Roma as a middle name
Roma is a first name for 1,899 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,155, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 237th, between Eva (1,171) and Kamilla (1,154).
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235
1,177Nela
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236
1,171Eva
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2371,155Roma
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238
1,154Kamilla
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239
1,150Ann