Romelo
Romelo was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,828 among boys’ names; 1,127 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Romelo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romelo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romelo?
#2,828 among boys’ names, 2025
Romelo rose from #3,073 in 2015 to #2,828 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 26.3 per million.
55 babies in 2021, the peak
Romelo peaked in 2021, when 55 boys were given it, #2,456 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,828 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,549 | 30.8 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,544 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,951 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,456 | 31.4 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,608 | 28.4 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,726 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,699 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,660 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,974 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,073 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,420 | 27.6 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,451 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,586 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,943 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,622 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,207 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,116 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,944 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,755 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,030 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,748 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,813 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,942 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,817 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,879 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,672 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,910 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,951 | 24.9 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,812 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,196 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,716 | 9.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romelo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romelo 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 Romelo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romelo, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,127 Americans ever recorded as Romelo. The median Romelo alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 686 people named Romelo (5 women and girls, 681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 852 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 438 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 596 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,840 babies since 1880, Romelo is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 119 babies (38%), 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 Romelo
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 Romelo and names like it
- Compare Romelo and RomelloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRomelo peaked in 2021.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romelo since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Romelo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Romelo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.