Romanian Boy Names
Romanian names bring together Romance-language forms and names carried through Orthodox tradition. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,848#126 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1960. | 906#362 | Down 30 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Ștefan; in U.S. records from 1910. | 219#1,023 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 670#462 | Up 174 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1912. | 418#660 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1914. | 7#10,530 | Down 2,558 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1948. | 53#2,517 | Down 249 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1970. | 51#2,592 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1919. | —Unranked | — | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1954. | 34#3,386 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1971. | 5#12,375 | new | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2000. | 57#2,416 | Up 708 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1995. | 16#5,835 | Down 156 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1928. | 14#6,246 | Up 524 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1996. | 13#6,677 | Down 804 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1923. | 5#12,455 | Down 5,737 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1913. | 8#9,073 | Down 3,042 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1996. | 7#10,332 | Down 2,450 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1927. | —Unranked | — | 1988 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1947. | —Unranked | — | 1988 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1985. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2004. | 6#11,181 | Down 2,866 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1921. | 5#13,722 | Up 166 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2001. | 6#11,537 | new | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1918. | 5#12,634 | new | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1985. | 6#11,182 | new | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2008. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1976. | —Unranked | — | 1976 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1978. | —Unranked | — | 1978 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Ionuț; in U.S. records from 2022. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2022. | —Unranked | — | 2022 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.