Romario
Romario was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,226 among boys’ names; 1,128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Romario and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romario by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romario?
#4,226 among boys’ names, 2025
Romario rose from #5,936 in 2015 to #4,226 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 14.6 per million.
102 babies in 1994, the peak
Romario peaked in 1994, when 102 boys were given it, #1,120 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,226 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,534 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,312 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,394 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,461 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,895 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,768 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,034 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,707 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,986 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,936 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,822 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,835 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,864 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,965 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,644 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,249 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,627 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,769 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,814 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,153 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,559 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,908 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,667 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,468 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,565 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,444 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,917 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,720 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 52 | #1,776 | 27.5 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,342 | 40.4 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,120 | 52.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,879 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,238 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,841 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,357 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,498 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romario a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romario has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romario: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romario, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,128 Americans ever recorded as Romario. The median Romario alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,626 people named Romario (12 women and girls, 1,614 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 555 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 287 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Romario born?
The states with the most babies named Romario are California, Texas and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 224 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 87 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 53 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Romario is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romario is most over-represented in California: since 1989 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Romario with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,225 babies since 1880, Romario is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 156 babies (16%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Romario
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Romario and names like it
- Compare Romario and RomeroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRomario peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romario since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Romario.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Romario alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.