Romaine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Clipping of romaine lettuce, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- France (INSEE, 1976): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Romaine is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 5.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 27K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,146 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Clipping of romaine lettuce, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Romaine is read
(measured from records)Romaine is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
Clipping of romaine lettuce, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Different form of Roman.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
lettuce; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French10%
feminine singular of romain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
La romaine est une variété de laitue importée d’Avignon (« par Bureau de la Rivière », dixit Littré) où siégea la cour pontificale à la fin du XIV e siècle.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Romaine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,146 | 1 in 155K | 2K | Romaine | 287 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 265 | Romaine | 89 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Romaine | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | #161 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Romaine | 23 |
| GY Guyana | — | 28 | 1 in 27K | 28 | — | 5 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 7 | — | 2 |
2,146 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicottb. 1856USnot in their usual nameAmerican suffragette
- William Romaine Newboldb. 1865USAmerican philosopher (1865–1926)
- Romaine Fieldingb. 1867USAmerican actor (1867–1927)
- Romaine Brooksb. 1874ITAmerican artist (1874-1970)
- Romaine Jeanb. 1956CHSwiss journalist
- Romaine Pattersonb. 1978USAmerican activist
- Romaine Quinnb. 1990USAmerican politician
- Romaine Sawyersb. 1991KNSaint Kitts and Nevis association football player
- Romaine Beckfordb. 2002JMJamaican high jumper
- Romaine Lee Mundleb. 2003GBEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1976 | 1.7K | #1,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #7,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 856 | #7,184 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 28 | #566 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 7 | #104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2009 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1999 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Romaine mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of romaine lettuce, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Romaine?
- In the etymology graph, Romane, Romana and Romayne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Romaine a male or female name?
- Romaine is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; France (INSEE, 1976): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Romaine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Romaine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romaine.
- How common is the name Romaine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,146 people named Romaine in 2020, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
- How common is Romaine compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Romaine is the 161st most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romaineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romaine” — the 161st most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.