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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 9,536 of them was named Romy, which outranked 92.4% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,350Onyx173
- #1,350Serafina173
- #1,350Tenley173
- #1,355Romy172
- #1,355Brinlee172
- #1,355Faigy172
- #1,355Isha172
- #1,362Alisa171
- #1,362Annette171
- #1,362Ayesha171
Tied with 6 names at #1,355; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 218,251 of them was named Romy, which outranked 37.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).