Roman

Cobblestones underfoot, aqueducts overhead, a name that walks straight out of the ancient world and keeps going. Roman comes from the Latin Romanus, meaning a citizen of Rome, and in the Slavic countries it has been a everyday given name for centuries, worn by Orthodox saints and Polish princes alike. Roman Polanski put it on American marquees; Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing later put it on their birth certificates. Currently ranked 52 and given to about one in 313 boys, it lands somewhere between Marcus and Dominic, with a little more marble.