girls:
575 births since 1894
#5141 (10th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1889
#2986 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1889
#5504 (29th percentile)
The name Romie is the #5,504 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,300 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 28.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,986 (34.9% percentile) for all time with 1,725 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,141 (10.0% percentile) for all time with 575 births since 1894.
Romie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1894 for girls). Birth data for Romie is available in 124 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (114 years for boys and 62 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Romie has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 16.7% of babies named Romie were boys. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for boys (84.1% boys from 1889 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (79.3% girls from 2006 to 2023).
For boys, Romie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #496) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 94 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Romie ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Romie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #922) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Romie ranks #922 for girls (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 80.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Romie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Romie is pronounced as ROH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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