Romany

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Romany: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Romany: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #824 in 2005, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#824highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1072
1997	#1176
1998	#1211
1999	#1261
2000	#1688
2001	#1238
2002	#1104
2003	#909
2004	#883
2005	#824
2006	#1087
2007	#1502
2008	#1516
2009	#1752
2010	#2235
2011	#2150
2012	#1525
2013	#1639
2014	#2314
2015	#2195
2016	#1834
2017	#1817
2018	#2674
2019	#1703
2020	#2843
2021	#1962
2022	#2673
2023	#2346
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1072 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #824 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Romany appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 475 births with the name.

Romany across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Romany's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1072 (1996)	#824 (2005)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	475 (1996–2024)	34 (2005)
England and Wales · Boys	#4608 (2020)	#4608 (2020)	#4789 (2021)	2 of 2	6 (2020–2021)	3 (2020)

Romany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Romany in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	65	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	211	10 of 10	21
2010s	142	10 of 10	14
2020s	57	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Romany appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #824 in England and Wales in 2005.

Romany's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1817	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1087	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#824	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1072	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #824, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,894position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
34births registered in its largest year, 200525 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Romana · #891, 27y
Romani · #2436, 18y
Romari · #2320, 12y
Romario · #813, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cedric · #825, 29y
Pollyanna · #825, 29y
Samiyah · #822, 27y
Waris · #826, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Fardeen · #824, 21y
Cedric · #825, 29y
Pollyanna · #825, 29y
Samiyah · #822, 27y

Romany was ranked #824 in England and Wales · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Romany and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Romany without appearing here.

Romany moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #5591.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2195 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1834 and #4096.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1817 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Romany

Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1703 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1313.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1817 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #1436.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1962 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2673 and #1452.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1639 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2314 and #1628.

Moved the opposite way to Romany

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Romany

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Romany went from #1072 to #1894 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #824 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Romany

Romany at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Romany across 2 official records

Romany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Romany across 2 official records

Romany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Romany

Romany and the names beside it

Romany moved ahead of

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