Uncommon Romanian Girl 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. | 61#2,809 | Up 858 rank positions in five years | 1953 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1916. | 243#1,029 | Down 799 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1917. | 111#1,816 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 50#3,201 | Down 201 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 51#3,138 | Up 888 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1888. | 92#2,056 | Up 515 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1944. | 139#1,528 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
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 1880. | 8#10,962 | new | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Ștefania; in U.S. records from 1901. | 25#5,217 | Down 1,384 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 1881. | 13#8,025 | Down 1,298 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
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 2000. | 8#11,804 | Down 827 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
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 1993. | 5#15,812 | new | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Romanian as Natașa; in U.S. records from 1973. | —Unranked | — | 2001 | ||
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 2013. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Romanian; in U.S. records from 2010. | —Unranked | — | 2010 | ||
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.