Romel
Romel was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,115 among boys’ names; 2,486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Romel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romel?
#3,115 among boys’ names, 2025
Romel fell from #2,672 in 2015 to #3,115 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 22.8 per million.
67 babies in 1991, the peak
Romel peaked in 1991, when 67 boys were given it, #1,388 among boys’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,115 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,379 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,937 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,950 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,959 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,789 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,550 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,835 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,937 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,612 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,672 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,611 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,325 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,441 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,396 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,049 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,114 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,425 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,498 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,307 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,417 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,406 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,250 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 67 | #1,735 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 62 | #1,806 | 31.9 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,211 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,013 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 57 | #1,784 | 29.8 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,850 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 54 | #1,732 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,127 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,597 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,889 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,992 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,388 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,930 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,187 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,870 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,788 | 19.8 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,784 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,587 | 22.2 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,684 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,257 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,480 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 47 | #1,391 | 26.2 |
| 1980 | 40 | #1,541 | 22.4 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,860 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,321 | 29.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,440 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,099 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,987 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,039 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,481 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,516 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,903 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,380 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,287 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,050 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,230 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,481 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,740 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,502 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,270 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,342 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,548 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,503 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,915 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,882 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,502 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,763 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,719 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,376 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romel, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,486 Americans ever recorded as Romel. The median Romel alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 3,466 people named Romel (88 women and girls, 3,378 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 294 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 638 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 836 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 538 |
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 Romel born?
The states with the most babies named Romel are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,168 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,510 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,041 | 0.5× |
Where Romel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romel is most over-represented in New York: since 1953 it was given 1.2 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 Romel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,643 babies since 1880, Romel is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 82 babies (48%), again the most given.
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 Romel
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 Romel and names like it
- Compare Romel and RomellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRomel peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romel since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Romel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Romel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.