Roam
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ROHM
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Roam is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “to wander”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Roam mean?
English: English word
“to wander”
From the English verb meaning to wander freely.
Is Roam a girl's or a boy's name?
Roam is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Roam in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Roam, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Roam in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 724 boys in the US were given Roam or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #444, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Roam in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
Names like Roam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Reef, Khaza, Zayd, Azai, Jahseh, Psalm, Soul, Rayyan, Lahiam, Azir, Zayan, Tru
Other spellings of Roam
Rome, Rhome
Names related to Roam
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Roam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/roam, updated 20 October 2026.