unisex name
Romi
ROH-mee
- Origin uncertain
- Gender Unisex
- Letters 4
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 3,454
the United States
#817
2025 births
Romi is a unisex name with no single source, arriving separately from Hebrew, Japanese and European naming, where it serves as a short form of Romy and Romina. It ranks 75th in Scotland and our data records it as unisex.
- Romi is a name of uncertain origin.
- Peaked in 2025, when 358 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 9,261 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1961.
Romi over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 79 |
| 1970s | 62 |
| 1980s | 16 |
| 1990s | 46 |
| 2000s | 211 |
| 2010s | 394 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 1,140 |
What Romi means
Romi has no settled meaning. The Hebrew romi is read as my height or my exaltation; the Japanese depends entirely on which characters are written; and the European use is a short form of longer names and carries their sense rather than one of its own.
Where Romi comes from
Romi arrives from several directions at once. In Hebrew it is a modern name from rom, height or loftiness, with the possessive ending, giving my exaltation, and it is used for girls in Israel. In Japanese, Romi is written with different kanji by different families, and the meaning changes completely with the characters — a general feature of Japanese given names rather than a fact about this one. In Europe it functions as a short form: of Romilly, an English and French surname from a Norman place name; of Romina, an Italian name meaning from Rome; and of Romy, which Romy Schneider made internationally familiar and which was itself short for Rosemarie. Rome and the Latin Romanus stand behind several of these but not all, so the name cannot be assigned a single origin honestly.
Romi in use
Romi ranks 75th in Scotland with 56 births in 2024 and 407th in England and Wales, and our data records it as unisex. It is rising with a peak in 2025, which makes it one of the newest names in Scotland's top hundred. Our records carry it from 1961, but the volume is entirely recent. It holds 817th in the United States and 1,458th in France.
How popular is Romi?
In 2025, Romi was given to 358 babies in the United States, ranking #817 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Romi is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Romi
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Romi also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Romi over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Romi in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Romi
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Romi — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Romi
What does the name Romi mean?
There is no single answer. The Hebrew Romi means my exaltation; the European use is a short form of Romy, Romina or Romilly.
Is Romi a boy's or a girl's name?
Both — our data records it as unisex.
Is Romi the same as Romy?
They overlap. Romy was originally short for Rosemarie and became a name in its own right.
How popular is Romi?
Seventy-fifth in Scotland and 407th in England and Wales.
Is Romi a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Romi currently ranks #75 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.