Uncommon Romanian Boy Names
Romanian names bring together Romance-language forms and names carried through Orthodox tradition. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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. | 7#9,841 | Down 3,164 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 155#1,269 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1884. | —Unranked | — | 1937 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1913. | 87#1,836 | Down 365 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1881. | 52#2,555 | Down 395 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1902. | 38#3,146 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1971. | 37#3,224 | Up 666 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1881. | —Unranked | — | 1926 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1950. | 22#4,558 | Down 125 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1902. | 15#6,050 | Down 169 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Lazăr; in U.S. records from 1931. | 24#4,328 | Down 454 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1971. | 24#4,252 | Down 1,115 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1980. | 15#6,048 | Up 2,460 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1981. | 9#8,275 | Down 1,970 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1930 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1996. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 1999 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2022. | 5#12,370 | new | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2010. | —Unranked | — | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1989. | —Unranked | — | 1989 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 1970 |
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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.