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Romy

#698 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Rosemarie

Romy has been given to 3,533 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #698 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 407 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Romy, 2025

1 in 8,150

Romy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Romy over time

In 2025, Romy went to 97% girls and 3% boys.

19322025

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.

Romy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rosemarie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romy means

Romy is a diminutive of Rosemarie.

Origin, language, and formation

Romy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosemarie, Roman, Rosemary and Romi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,298 girls were recorded with the name Romy between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 407 in 2025; its best national rank was #698 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,507 in 2020 to #698 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,402 in 2015 to #698 in 2025.

In the United States, 235 boys were recorded with the name Romy between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,239 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,652 in 2020 to #7,567 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,642 in 2015 to #7,567 in 2025.

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 Romy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,150
407 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,950
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#698
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,647 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romy 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 2025 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,647 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romy was born before 2016 — so the typical Romy is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,298
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (1,335).

Is Romy 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
+230
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+809
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,704
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (407)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
2025

Spellings of Romy

Romy is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 30.2% against Romy's 0.14%.

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 Romy is used

Across 2016–2025, Romy was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 9,346 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

126 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,846
  2. 2Oregon1 in 4,167
  3. 3California1 in 4,545
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,263
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 5,882
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 6,667
  7. 7Nevada1 in 10,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 11,111

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.

Romy around the world

Where Romy 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #172
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–2025
    #81
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1994–2025
    #247
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #8
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #76
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2008
    #533
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Romy

People whose public names include Romy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Romy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Romy. Linked forms have their own page here.

RomiRomieRommy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Romy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#698
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 809
Best rank ever
#698
2025
Peak year
2025
407 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,298
Count in 2025
407

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,567
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,085
Best rank ever
#3,239
1964
Peak year
2008
11 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
235
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Romy

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

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Names with a curve like Romy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Romy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Romy

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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