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Romuald

Boys' name

Fame + to rule

Romuald has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1924, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Romuald, 1965

1 in 725,000

Romuald over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romuald: meaning, origin, and history

Fame + to rule

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romuald means

Romuald means “fame + to rule”, associated with ruom and waltan.

Origin, language, and formation

Romuald is used in French and Polish.

Romuald comes through Old High German ruom.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Romualdo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Romuald is pronounced /ʁɔ.mɥald/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 boys were recorded with the name Romuald between 1914 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,598 in 1914.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Romuald?

Romuald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,625,243 births
Among boys only
1 in 372,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1965
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,567 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romuald sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 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 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romuald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romualds were born

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

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16
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1920s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Romuald 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (12)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,598
1914

Spellings of Romuald

Romuald is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 99.8% against Romuald'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.

Romuald around the world

Where Romuald 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
    1900–2025
    #3,796
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1950–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Romuald by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,598
1914
Peak year
1924
12 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1965
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Romuald

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

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Sibling names for Romuald

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

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