Romilly is from the French Romillé — a Norman place name derived from the Latin Romulus (Rome). A vintage British revival name in the modern American aesthetic. *Romilly (Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, 2014) — male astronomer character on the Endurance spacecraft, played by David Gyasi; Interstellar* grossed $773 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (2015); the film's exploration of relativity, gravity, and time-dilation made it one of the most-discussed science fiction films of the 2010s. Romilly Hunte — British figure. Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) — male; British lawyer and politician; pioneer of criminal law reform in Britain; abolished the death penalty for many minor offenses; his daughter Edith Romilly married Henry Lambton (4th Earl of Durham). Esmond Romilly (1918-1941) — male; British political activist; nephew of Winston Churchill; first husband of Jessica Mitford. Romilly Sands — British screenwriter. The name reflects the broader 2020s American taste for distinctive British vintage surnames alongside Quinby, Beverley, and Romilly. The Norman-French heritage and recent cinematic association make Romilly a multilayered choice for parents drawn to both British vintage and modern fantasy literature.
Featured throughout British history and modern cinema.
Romilly 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Romilly reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.