Romy
#694 for girls in 2025, 407 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 93.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 407 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,298since 1959
Romy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #694 | 407 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #926 | 286 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #1,277 | 179 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #1,355 | 172 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #1,441 | 149 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,503 | 142 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,708 | 122 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,915 | 104 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,206 | 87 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #2,340 | 33 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,454 | 28 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,489 | 56 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,319 | 72 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #1,839 | 40 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Romy! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Romy
- 232 spots since 2024 (#926 → #694)
- 809 spots since 2020 (#1,503 → #694)
- 1,688 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #694)
- Biggest jump: 351 spots in 2024 (#1,277 → #926)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2025 at #694 (407 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,949 girls born in 2025 were named Romy (0.03%)
- 40.5% of all girls named Romy (1,335) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1958, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 316 | #1,319 (1964) | #2,052 |
| 1970s | 188 | #2,203 (1970) | #4,183 |
| 1980s | 90 | #5,539 (1984) | #6,804 |
| 1990s | 175 | #3,569 (1999) | #6,280 |
| 2000s | 420 | #2,684 (2007) | #3,718 |
| 2010s | 769 | #1,708 (2019) | #2,501 |
| 2020s | 1,335 | #694 (2025) | #1,199 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Romy in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 20,368 of them was named Romy, which outranked 88.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,188Rivky88
- #2,188Safiya88
- #2,188Zofia88
- #2,206Romy87
- #2,206Anisa87
- #2,206Ansleigh87
- #2,206Aribella87
- #2,221Adalia86
- #2,221Aisley86
- #2,221Anali86
Tied with 14 names at #2,206; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.