Romi
Feminine · “height”
Romi is given to both — 1,810 girls and 138 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Romi is a short name with a long tail behind it: two open syllables, a rolled start and a soft ending, arriving in American records in the early 1960s and drifting quietly for decades before the recent climb. It reaches English from more than one direction — Hebrew on one side, German and Dutch pet names on the other — and it needs no shortening, which is rare in a girl's name this brief.
How old is the name Romi?
Romi first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Romi is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Romi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Romi most popular?
Romi peaked in 2025, reaching #817 nationally. Today it ranks #817, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Rosemarie to Romi
The story of Romi
The Hebrew road is the older one: the consonants r-w-m carry the sense of rising or being lifted up across the Hebrew Bible, and modern Israeli naming drew short, vowel-light names like Romi from that stock, which is why the name is widely given in Israel today. The European road is younger and entirely separate — nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Dutch families clipped Rosemarie and Romana down to Romy, and the -i spelling followed. American English inherited both at once, which is part of why the name arrived here without a single fixed story. Its footing in the United States is genuinely recent: it sat on the margins of the record for a long stretch before the current rise, and the great majority of American Romis are small children rather than adults.
Meaningscholars disagree
'height, exaltation' in Hebrew — or a short form of Rosemarie and Romana
Two genuine readings sit side by side. In Hebrew, Romi (רומי) is linked to the root r-w-m, 'to rise, to be high', the same root behind words for height and exaltation; the identical spelling in Hebrew also happens to be the word for 'Roman'. In German- and Dutch-speaking Europe, Romi and Romy grew up instead as clipped forms of Rosemarie, Romana and Romina, where the meaning belongs to the longer name. Neither road is a corruption of the other; they simply met at the same four letters.
How the name formed
- Rosemarie
- Romy
- Romi
Related forms: רומי · Romy · Romy · Romina · Romana · ロミ
Pronouncing Romi
ROH-mee
In American English the stress falls on the first syllable. Israeli Hebrew stresses the second — ro-MEE — so the same name can sound noticeably different depending on who is saying it, and both are correct in their own setting.
Nicknames for Romi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 2025333 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #817reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +30.6%333 in 2025, from 255
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Romi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- רומי in Hebrew — transliteration
- Romy in German — spelling variant
- Romy in Dutch — spelling variant
- Romina in Italian — related form
- Romana in Latin/Italian — related form
- ロミ in Japanese — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Florida.
Romis among us
people named Romi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 4,827 born in 2025 was named Romi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Romi
- #817
- Romi on the 2025 chart
- #396
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Romi went to 333 girls in 2025, but Romy and Romii are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 749, which makes it the 396th most-given girls’ name of the year — 421 places above the chart.
- Romy407
- Romi333
- Romii9
About 1 girl in 2,146 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 4,827 for Romi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cherrie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Romi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cherrie climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cherrie's path sketches the road Romi is walking now.
Romi is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Romi is headed
Romi looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 59% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Romi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Romi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short and already complete — no shortening is required, and the spelling matches how it sounds on first reading.
- Works in at least three language communities: Hebrew, German and Dutch all use Romi or Romy of their own accord.
- Sits in a familiar sound family alongside Remi, Romy and Romina, so listeners rarely need it repeated twice.
- Rare enough in the United States that a child is unlikely to share it in a classroom.
- The Romi/Romy/Remi cluster means a lifetime of small corrections. All three are in use, all three sound close, and people who hear the name will often reach for the wrong spelling.
- Because its American wave is so new, nearly everyone carrying it here is a young child. That will feel unusual for a while, and the rise now underway means it may be less unusual by the time she starts school.
- In Hebrew the same spelling is also the ordinary word for 'Roman', which is worth knowing if the name will be read by Hebrew speakers.
- The Hebrew and English stress patterns differ, so relatives in different countries may pronounce it two ways. Families generally settle on one and let the other stand.
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Frequently asked
- How many Romis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Romi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Romi?
- Romi is one of 3 recorded spellings. Romy is the more common one — 407 births in 2025 against 333 for Romi.
- How popular is the name Romi in 2025?
- Romi ranks #817 among US girl names in 2025, with 333 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Romi?
- About 1 in every 4,827 US girls born in 2025 was named Romi — 333 in all.
- Will my child share the name Romi with classmates?
- Romi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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