Romney — boys' name

What the Data Says About Romney

The Social Security Administration has registered 262 babies named Romney between 1921 and 2018, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Romney currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Romney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Romney performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 57 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Romney shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Romney in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Romney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 262 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.