Romy
Romy was given to 407 girls in 2025, #698 among girls’ names; 3,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,450 Americans named Romy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 3 and 25.
Romy climbed 230 places in 2025, the #22 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romy?
#698 among girls’ names, 2025
Romy rose from #2,402 in 2015 to #698 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.25 per 1,000.
418 babies in 2025, the peak
Romy peaked in 2025, when 418 babies were given it (407 girls, #698 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 286 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 407 | #698 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 286 | #928 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,286 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,449 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 142 | #1,507 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,714 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,923 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,217 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 87 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,402 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,800 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,159 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,676 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,861 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,242 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,038 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,208 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,706 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,167 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,094 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,800 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,504 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,151 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,846 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,273 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,622 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,806 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,966 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,843 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,233 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,951 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,576 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,500 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,852 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,995 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,802 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,138 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,813 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,818 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,158 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,866 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,881 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,869 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,662 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,497 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,363 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,233 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,496 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,468 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,721 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,496 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 72 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,266 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,019 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Romy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,533 Americans recorded as Romy, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 407 girls and 11 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Romy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romy, and how old are they?
3,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,533 Americans ever recorded as Romy. The median Romy alive today is 10 years old; half are between 3 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,073 people named Romy (2,512 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 122 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 378 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 741 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,980 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Romy born?
The states with the most babies named Romy are California, New York and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 76 | #440 | 1.6× |
| New York | 51 | #332 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,085 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #269 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 16 | #992 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 13 | #536 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 12 | #682 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 12 | #567 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 12 | #490 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #706 | 0.5× |
Where Romy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romy is most over-represented in California: since 1932 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Romy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,889 babies since 1880, Romy is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 418 of their 1,025 babies (41%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Romy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Romy and names like it
- Compare Romy and RomaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRomy peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romy since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Romy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Romy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.