Romell
Romell was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,508 among boys’ names; 1,582 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Romell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romell?
#4,508 among boys’ names, 2025
Romell fell from #3,571 in 2015 to #4,508 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 13.5 per million.
39 babies in 2014, the peak
Romell peaked in 2014, when 39 boys were given it, #2,973 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,508 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,846 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,851 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,403 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,746 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,668 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,085 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,459 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,958 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,073 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,571 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,973 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,034 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,103 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,415 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,431 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,804 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,329 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,468 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,070 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,431 | 14.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,718 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,770 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,324 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,970 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,846 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,257 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,836 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,884 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,522 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,331 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,665 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,119 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,431 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,523 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,536 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,063 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,314 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,047 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,345 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,917 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,757 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,004 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,578 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,189 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,431 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 33 | #1,747 | 19.2 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,827 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,637 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,983 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,394 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,109 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,482 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,226 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,448 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,487 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,265 | 5.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,482 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,491 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,516 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,253 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,978 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,861 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,907 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,486 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,162 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,745 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,869 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,652 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,108 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,378 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,582 Americans recorded as Romell, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Romell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romell, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,582 Americans ever recorded as Romell. The median Romell alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,139 people named Romell (106 women and girls, 1,033 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 225 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 455 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 321 |
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 Romell born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,231 | 0.2× |
Where Romell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romell is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1920 it was given 1.9 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 Romell 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, Romell is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 82 babies (28%), again the second 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 Romell
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 Romell and names like it
- Compare Romell and RomelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRomell peaked in 2014.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romell since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Romell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Romell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.