Entry № 8801 · Germanic origin

Romy Romy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RO-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"From Rome; bitter; beloved"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Germanic)

A name that means "from rome; bitter; beloved".

Romy is the diminutive of Rosemary or Rosemarie — combining Rose and Mary.

Romy is enormously popular in the Netherlands and Germany. In the U.S. it entered the top 1000 in 2017 and is rising fast.

Rosemary's short form. The German screen icon.

The name in its native script.

Romy
Transliteration
Romy
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊ.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Romy stands.

Romy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Romys before her.

Real people
Romy Schneider
German-French actress.
1938 – 1982
In fiction
Romy
Title character of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.
1997 film

Names connected to Romy.

The number behind Romy.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Romy reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.