Romello
Romello was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,530 among boys’ names; 2,306 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,270 Americans named Romello and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romello by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romello?
#2,530 among boys’ names, 2025
Romello fell from #2,345 in 2015 to #2,530 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 29.2 to 31.0 per million.
164 babies in 1995, the peak
Romello peaked in 1995, when 164 boys were given it, #839 among boys’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,530 | 31.0 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,284 | 36.6 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,239 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,314 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,910 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,203 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,104 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,039 | 39.1 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,910 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,361 | 29.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,345 | 29.2 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,853 | 41.6 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,749 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,124 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,984 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,624 | 50.6 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,031 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,455 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,592 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,055 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,453 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,150 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,382 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,881 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 79 | #1,535 | 40.7 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,865 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,729 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,376 | 44.5 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,058 | 63.7 |
| 1996 | 142 | #923 | 75.0 |
| 1995 | 164 | #839 | 86.1 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,305 | 41.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romello a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romello has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romello: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romello, and how old are they?
2,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,306 Americans ever recorded as Romello. The median Romello alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,455 people named Romello (4 women and girls, 1,451 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,913 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 373 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 871 |
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 Romello born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,244 | 0.6× |
Where Romello is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romello is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.1 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 Romello 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,840 babies since 1880, Romello is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 119 babies (45%), 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 Romello
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 Romello and names like it
- Compare Romello and RomeloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRomello peaked in 1995.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romello since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Romello.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Romello alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.