Romina
Feminine · “Of Rome”
Romina moves in three even beats, with the stress landing on a long middle syllable — ro-MEE-na — the same shape that carries Marina and Carolina. It sits on the old Latin root for Rome, and it traveled through Italian and Spanish before reaching American records in the middle of the last century. In the Southwest especially, it is a name people already know how to say.
How old is the name Romina?
Romina first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Romina is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 7,200 people named Romina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Romina most popular?
Romina peaked in 2024, reaching #477 nationally. Today it ranks #529, 52 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Roma to Romina
The story of Romina
The Latin root is old and plain: Roma gave Romanus, 'of Rome,' which gave the feminine Romana, used as a personal name in Italy for centuries. Romina is the softer Italian and Spanish reshaping of that line, and for a long time it stayed a regional name rather than an international one. Its wider spread owes a great deal to the Italian-American singer Romina Power, who from the mid-1970s recorded and toured as half of the duo Al Bano & Romina Power — enormously popular in Italy, across Latin America and in Eastern Europe. The name's strength in Texas, California and Arizona follows that Spanish-language route rather than an English one.
Meaningscholars disagree
Of Rome; Roman
The mainstream reading treats Romina as an Italian and Spanish form built on Romano/Romana, from Latin Romanus, 'Roman, of Rome' — the same root behind Romana and Romane. A second reading circulates widely in name references, tracing it instead to Arabic rummān, 'pomegranate,' by way of Spain. Neither has knocked the other out, and the Latin line is the better documented of the two.
How the name formed
- Roma
- Romanus
- Romana
- Romina
Related forms: Romina · Romina · Romana · Romane · رومینا (Romina) · Romy
Pronouncing Romina
ro-MEE-nah
Three syllables, stress on the middle one, with a clear 'ee'. Spanish and Italian speakers land on this without being told. The English hazard is an occasional first-guess of ro-MY-nuh, which one correction usually fixes.
Nicknames for Romina
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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
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 2024647 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #477reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −12.1%569 in 2025, from 647
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.
Romina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Romina in Italian — same name
- Romina in Spanish — same name
- Romana in Italian, Czech, Slovak — related form
- Romane in French — related form
- رومینا (Romina) in Persian — transliteration
- Romy in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Rominas among us
people named Romina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,825 born in 2025 was named Romina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Moriah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Romina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Moriah climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Moriah's path sketches the road Romina is walking now.
Romina 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 Romina is headed
Romina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% 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.
Romina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Romina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in Spanish, Italian and English alike — no silent letters, no competing spellings in wide circulation.
- Ready-made short forms in real use: Romi, Mina, Romy.
- Works unchanged in Italian and Spanish, and is used in Persian too, so it crosses languages without being reshaped.
- Rests on a documented Latin line — Roma, Romanus, Romana — rather than a recent coinage.
- Rare enough in American classrooms that a child is unlikely to share it, while still being a name adults recognize.
- It sits close to Ramona, Romana and Rowena in the ear, and people who half-hear it will sometimes write one of those instead. Saying it once and slowly generally settles the matter.
- It is climbing rather than holding steady, so the number of Rominas in a given school year is likely to be larger than it is now by the time a child born today is in high school.
- Its footing is strongest in Texas, California and Arizona. Elsewhere it may need spelling out more often — a small, repeatable cost rather than a real obstacle.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rominas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,200 people named Romina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Romina in 2025?
- Romina ranks #529 among US girl names in 2025, with 569 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Romina?
- About 1 in every 2,825 US girls born in 2025 was named Romina — 569 in all.
- Will my child share the name Romina with classmates?
- Romina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Romina
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