Girls' name · since 1924
Rometta
34 babies named Rometta in U.S. Social Security records since 1924, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #39,614 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 34
- born since 1924
- 1950s
- peak decade
Rometta sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 34 recorded since 1924.
Rometta has 34 recorded births among girls since 1924, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1924 to 1959.
- #39,614 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 34 born since 1924
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rometta ranks #39,614 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 34 born since 1924, peaking in the 1950s.
- #39,614 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 34
- born since 1924
- 1950s
- peak decade
Rometta's 34 recorded births place it above 45.11% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rometta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Rometta's SSA record in two at 1950 and the more recent half accounts for 47% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 53%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1925, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1949 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Rometta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1924–1959
- Peak year (1949)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Rometta by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (16 births, 47% of the file).
1950s was Rometta's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Rometta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
11 births
- 1940s
1940s
7 births
- 1950s
1950s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 16 births (47% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Rometta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1924–1959 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rometta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.