Rommy
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rommy has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1985, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.
Babies named Rommy, 2008
1 in 786,000
Rommy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Rommy over time
In 2008, Rommy went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Rommy?
Rommy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rommy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rommy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rommys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rommy was born before 1996 — so the typical Rommy is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Rommy 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 1985 (7)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Rommy
Rommy is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 33.8% against Rommy's <0.01%.
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.
Rommy around the world
Where Rommy 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.
- France2020–2025#4,488in 2025
- Canada2016–2016#3,204in 2016
- South Australia1991–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rommy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rommy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rommy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.