Romulo
Romulo was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,531 among boys’ names; 842 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Romulo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Romulo mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Romulo is “a male given name from Spanish” Its etymology gives the sense “legendary founder of Rome” (Rōmulus).
Borrowed from Spanish Rómulo, from Latin Rōmulus (“legendary founder of Rome”).
/ˈɾomulo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Romulo?
#9,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Romulo rose from #10,398 in 2015 to #9,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 4.7 per million.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Romulo peaked in 1993, when 18 boys were given it, #3,617 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,531 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,688 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,784 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,658 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,565 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,393 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,727 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,688 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,649 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,398 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #8,003 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,498 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,527 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,965 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,648 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,172 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,174 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,484 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,877 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,537 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,756 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,172 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,283 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,220 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,254 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,411 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,138 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,979 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,425 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,243 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,617 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,797 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,779 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,616 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,469 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,859 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,918 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,067 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,615 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,876 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,824 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,914 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,184 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,393 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,995 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,799 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,559 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,664 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,614 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,087 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,483 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,109 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,105 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,381 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,318 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,697 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,195 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,741 | 5.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,517 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,255 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,988 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,603 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,546 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,405 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,449 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,160 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,299 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,128 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,870 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,839 | 4.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,581 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,584 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,672 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,252 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,694 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,825 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,904 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,085 | 6.0 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,477 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,059 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,602 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,230 | 7.1 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,201 | 7.4 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,397 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,348 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,965 | 9.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,194 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,332 | 8.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,837 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Romulo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Romulo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Romulo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Romulo, and how old are they?
An estimated 668 Americans named Romulo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 20 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,771 people named Romulo (8 women and girls, 3,763 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.8 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.
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 Romulo born?
The states with the most babies named Romulo are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 51 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Romulo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Romulo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1912 it was given 1.6 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 Romulo 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,578 babies since 1880, Romulo is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 114 babies (7.0%), again the third 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 Romulo
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 Romulo and names like it
- Compare Romulo and RomelloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRomulo peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Romulo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Romulo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Romulo.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Romulo alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.