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Romina vs Romona

American parents have registered 7,247 Rominas since 1880, against 5,175 Romonas. Romina is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Romina against Romona, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Romina Romona

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 116 years in which either name was published, Romona for 76 years and Romina for 40 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Romina Romona
Total US births 7,2475,175
Most in one year 647148
Babies in 2025 5695
Estimated living today 7,2003,400
Median age today 763
Peak year 20241955
Best rank 477th girls788th girls
Rank in 2025 529th14,942nd
First recorded 19511908
Girls / boys 7,247 / 05,175 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Romonas alive today are over 63; half the Rominas are over 7. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Romina and Romona.