Romilda

Girls' name

Famous battle

Romilda has been given to 358 babies in the U.S. since 1901. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Romilda, 1954

1 in 796,000

Romilda over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romilda: meaning, origin, and history

Famous battle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romilda means

Romilda means “famous battle”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Romilda is used in Italian and Germanic (Latinized).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 358 girls were recorded with the name Romilda between 1901 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,826 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Romilda?

Romilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954: 1 in 796,000; 5 of 3,979,464 births
Among girls only: 1 in 388,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1954: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 551,672 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Romilda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 551,672 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romilda was born before 1924 — so the typical Romilda is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 30.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (136).

Is Romilda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1917 (20)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,826; 1917

Spellings of Romilda

Romilda is not the most common spelling — Romina is, with 71.7% against Romilda's 3.5%.

Romina71.7%7,247
Romelia16.1%1,623
Milda8.7%878
Romilda3.5%358

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Romilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Romilda was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 934,718 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Romilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Romilda around the world

Where Romilda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1913–1926
#855
in 1926

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Romilda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,826; 1917
Peak year: 1917; 20 that year
First recorded: 1901
Last recorded: 1954
All-time count: 358
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Romilda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Romelda Romilly Romalda Romelle Romelia Romaisa Roman Romani Romee Romey Romonia Romie Romiyah Romana Romayne Romanda Romonda Rome Ethelda Alwilda Grizelda Ronalda Romesha Armilda

Sibling names for Romilda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Harriette Winnifred Maurine Johnie

For a brother

Meyer Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe Isadore Aloysius

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