Romy

femaleStatistical record

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

No researched meaning or origin yet — what that means.

Pronunciation

Community-contributed pronunciation recording

Recording by Marcel Coenders. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

VerifiedSource: Wikidata.Confidence: medium.

Romy: Recorded every year since 1994, its highest recorded position is #63, and it stood at #172 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#63highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#736
1997	#1045
1998	#672
1999	#663
2000	#545
2001	#612
2002	#722
2003	#690
2004	#948
2005	#1045
2006	#1031
2007	#809
2008	#779
2009	#916
2010	#801
2011	#830
2012	#902
2013	#1075
2014	#920
2015	#760
2016	#790
2017	#701
2018	#614
2019	#510
2020	#452
2021	#378
2022	#391
2023	#273
2024	#187
2025	#172

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 26 of the 32 years from 1994 to 2025.

In 2025: #172 among girls in England and Wales, #247 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1994–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #502 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #172 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Romy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 30 ranked years and 2,027 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1994.

Romy across 4 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.

Romy'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#502 (1994)	#213 (2024)	#247 (2025)	26 of 32	198 (1994–2025)	20 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#736 (1996)	#172 (2025)	#172 (2025)	30 of 30	2,027 (1996–2025)	282 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#3467 (2003)	#1153 (2025)	#1153 (2025)	14 of 23	123 (2003–2025)	25 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#426 (2015)	#212 (2024)	#212 (2024)	4 of 10	20 (2015–2024)	8 (2024)

Romy 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 Romy in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	122	4 of 10	31
2000s	367	10 of 10	37
2010s	508	10 of 10	51
2020sbusiest	1,030	6 of 10	172

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 172 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 100, from 163 to 263.

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

Romy appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #63 in Scotland in 2024.

Romy'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#172	282	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#1153	25	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#187	263	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1402	19	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#273	163	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#391	110	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#378	121	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#452	91	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#510	80	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#614	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#701	58	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#790	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#760	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#902	41	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#830	44	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#801	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#916	36	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#809	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1031	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#948	27	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#690	41	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#722	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#612	42	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#545	50	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1045	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#212	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#264	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#247	17	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#213	20	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#339	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	16	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#539	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#314	10	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#63	67	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

Where Romy is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Romy, between 1994 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1994–2025	26	#213 in 2024
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#172 in 2025
Northern Ireland	2015–2024	4	#212 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#63 in 2024

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1994 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #63, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 282 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 30 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, 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.

Cheyenne · #63, 30y
Dexter · #63, 30y
Farrah · #63, 31y
Tiarnan · #62, 37y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Cheyenne · #63, 30y
Dexter · #63, 30y
Indiana · #63, 30y
Lykke · #64, 27y

Romy was ranked #63 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Cora#60
Eden#60
Eva#62
Rose#63
Thea#65
Alba#66
Hannah#66
Lyla#68

Romy 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Romy without appearing here.

Romy moved ahead of

Graham
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1402 and #5119.
Harald
In 2020 they stood at #4052 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1984 and #4789.
Geoffrey
In 2022 they stood at #2165 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1701 and #4107.
Willow
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2488 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Romy

Harper
In 2011 they stood at #830 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #902 and #284.
Ava
In 1996 they stood at #736 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1045 and #500.
Madison
In 2004 they stood at #314 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #689 and #256.
Poppy
In 2004 they stood at #314 and #403 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #689 and #256.

Moved the opposite way to Romy

Aoife
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 while Aoife went from #6 to #34.
Audrey
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 while Audrey went from #240 to #885.
Eileen
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 while Eileen went from #125 to #443.
Elaine
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 while Elaine went from #48 to #608.

Moved the same way as Romy

Abigail
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 and Abigail from #220 to #115.
Alice
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 and Alice from #92 to #41.
Anna
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 and Anna from #49 to #26.
Annie
Between 1994 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Romy went from #502 to #247 and Annie from #187 to #33.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #63 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Romy

Pronunciation

Romy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Romy across 4 official records

Romy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Romy appears in

Popularity data

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What the record shows

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Romy at a glance

Romy across 4 official records

Romy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Romy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Romy

Romy and the names beside it

Romy moved ahead of

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