Romanian Names

Romanian names bring together Romance-language forms and names carried through Orthodox tradition. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914.

7#10,530
Down 2,558 rank positions in five years
1959

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918.

50#3,180
Down 1,000 rank positions in five years
1991

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1897.

20#6,051
Up 2,746 rank positions in five years
2002

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1919.

—Unranked
—
1947

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

5#12,375
new
2004

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1995.

16#5,835
Down 156 rank positions in five years
2004

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1890.

5#15,678
new
1915

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

—Unranked
—
2005

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1928.

14#6,246
Up 524 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996.

13#6,677
Down 804 rank positions in five years
2019

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923.

5#12,455
Down 5,737 rank positions in five years
2018

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959.

—Unranked
—
1974

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996.

7#10,332
Down 2,450 rank positions in five years
2010

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1927.

—Unranked
—
1988

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003.

—Unranked
—
2010

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1968.

—Unranked
—
1968

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1947.

—Unranked
—
1988

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1985.

—Unranked
—
2005

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005.

6#14,262
Up 191 rank positions in five years
2017

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1993.

5#15,812
new
2003

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
1917

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

—Unranked
—
2022

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2013.

—Unranked
—
2015

Recorded in Romanian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986.

6#13,752
new
1988

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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.

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