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Romona vs Romunda

American parents have registered 5,175 Romonas since 1880, against 54 Romundas. Romona is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Romona against Romunda, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Romona Romunda

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

Romona has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1967, when Romona had 137 and Romunda had 22.

Side by side

  Romona Romunda
Total US births 5,17554
Most in one year 14822
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,40050
Median age today 6358
Peak year 19551967
Best rank 788th girls2,632nd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19081966
Girls / boys 5,175 / 054 / 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 Romundas are over 58. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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