Romanian Girl 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. | 2,887#87 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 371#737 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 1979 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1881. | 798#389 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,836#42 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1881. | 373#733 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,677#45 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1906. | 128#1,622 | Down 327 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1892. | 2,204#130 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1915. | 216#1,106 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 1999 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Cătălina; in U.S. records from 1893. | 2,456#111 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1897. | 1,139#273 | Up 133 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1886. | 37#3,920 | Down 571 rank positions in five years | 1992 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1918. | 451#641 | Up 251 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1918. | 50#3,180 | Down 1,000 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1884. | 40#3,728 | Down 629 rank positions in five years | 1987 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1944. | 127#1,636 | Up 295 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1897. | 20#6,051 | Up 2,746 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1893. | 18#6,491 | Up 2,896 rank positions in five years | 1935 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1915. | 7#12,242 | new | 1969 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1930. | —Unranked | — | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1890. | 5#15,678 | new | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1984. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1959. | —Unranked | — | 1974 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1989 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1924 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1968. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Mădălina; in U.S. records from 2005. | 6#14,262 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1993. | 5#15,812 | new | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Ștefana; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1981. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2008. | —Unranked | — | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2013. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1986. | 6#13,752 | new | 1988 | ||
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.