Romy

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Romy is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Diminutif de Rosemarie, du latin rosa « rose » et de l’hébreu mar-yam « goutte de mer ».

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.1K◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.5K
  • CACanada1 in 17K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈27K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
247 ●

32K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.9K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

Diminutif de Rosemarie, du latin rosa « rose » et de l’hébreu mar-yam « goutte de mer ».

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Romy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#33056,7895.1K rec.—11KRomy89
FR France—23,220△5 rec.1 in 2.9K23K—6
PH Philippines—7,1646.1K rec.——Romy52
CA Canada—4,924462 rec.—3Romy67
AU Australia—2,8912.4K rec.——Romy115
BE Belgium#6802,818498 rec.—149Romy43
US United States—2,51215K rec.1 in 132K2.5KRomy247
GB United Kingdom—1,560978 rec.—67Romy99
VE Venezuela—5211 rec.——Romy2
BR Brazil—302△3 rec.1 in 701K302Romy4
PE Peru—252138 rec.——Romy32
IT Italy—200204 rec.—8Romy22

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Languages●

  • French87K31%
  • English47K17%
  • Spanish33K12%
  • German30K11%
  • Western Frisian24K9%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French86,94831%
English47,42417%
Spanish33,15812%
German30,02811%
Western Frisian24,0169%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Romy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name98K records spelled Romy37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: French, Hindi, Khmer

    Also written Romi, 로미, Romie, Rome, Rommy

  • Spanish given name44K records spelled Romy10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Romý, Romÿ, Römÿ, Rómý, Römy

  • German given name33K records spelled Romy2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Rômý

  • Thai given name839 records spelled Romy11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โรม, 'โรม, โรมี, โรมี่, โร่ม

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Romy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Diminutif moderne, surtout de Rosemary/Rosemarie; aussi rapproché de Romane.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Diminutif moderne, souvent de Romane/Romuald ou Rosemary selon l’usage.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Diminutif moderne, souvent lié à Roméo ou Rosemarie.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • German and English: pet form of Rosemarie (see ROSEMARY ), made famous by the Austrian film actress Romy Schneider (1938–82). Variant: English: Romey .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060019401960198020002020

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Romy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1932–2025
Yearrecords
19325
19595
196216
196340
196472
196556
196633
196745
196826
196928
197036
197133
197229
197316
197410
197510
197615
197719
197811
19799
198012
198112
19839
198412
19858
198610
19877
19888
198912
19909
199114
199210
199313
199415
19957
199621
199721
199831
199934
200022
200134
200231
200329
200438
200535
200653
200768
200853
200957
201051
201161
201267
201352
201462
201577
201687
201786
2018104
2019122
2020142
2021149
2022172
2023179
2024286
2025407

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1932–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Romy Haag, b. 1951Romy Kermer, b. 1956Romy Müller, b. 1958Romy Saalfeld, b. 1960Romy Rosemont, b. 1964Romy Tarangul, b. 1987Romy Monteiro, b. 1992Romy Indy, b. 1999Romy Weltman, b. 2000Romi Paritzki, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 78 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Romy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202423K#7
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11K#356
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.5K#5,544
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20241.2K#93
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020561#5,544
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025407—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024315—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022302—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—234#23,044
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—222#18,957
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2024149#45
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—146#11,619

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 664 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Romy?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Romy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Romy have the most bearers?
Romy is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands, where it is most often spelled romy.
How common is Romy compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Romy is the 330th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Romy a male or female name?
Romy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Romy mean?
Recorded meaning: Diminutif de Rosemarie, du latin rosa « rose » et de l’hébreu mar-yam « goutte de mer ».
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romy” — the 330th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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