Romero
Romero was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,977 among boys’ names; 1,844 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Romero and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romero by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Romero?
#2,977 among boys’ names, 2025
Romero rose from #4,265 in 2015 to #2,977 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 24.6 per million.
46 babies in 2019, the peak
Romero peaked in 2019, when 46 boys were given it, #2,758 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,977 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,903 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,616 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,202 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,715 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,912 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,758 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,040 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,567 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,175 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,265 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,673 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,250 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,285 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,096 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,611 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,250 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,628 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,770 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,204 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,741 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,200 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,605 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,749 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,774 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,241 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,541 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,434 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,486 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,813 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,086 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,290 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,177 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,189 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,382 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,601 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,176 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,662 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,314 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,098 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,341 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,685 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,323 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,579 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,321 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,513 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,093 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,057 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,339 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,663 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,728 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,740 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,690 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,227 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,852 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,926 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,288 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,287 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,329 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,872 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,589 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,291 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,394 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,520 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,129 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,188 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,544 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,230 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,908 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,930 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,163 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,706 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,022 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,838 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,109 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,088 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,321 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,875 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,693 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,532 | 7.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,847 | 4.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,922 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romero a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romero has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romero: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romero, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,844 Americans ever recorded as Romero. The median Romero alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,430 people named Romero (98 women and girls, 2,332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,532 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 111 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 509 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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 Romero born?
The states with the most babies named Romero are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,410 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,879 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,042 | 0.1× |
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 Romero 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 3,286 babies since 1880, Romero is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 162 babies (26%), the second 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 Romero
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 Romero and names like it
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