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Roemello vs Roen

American parents have registered 1,121 Roens since 1880, against 262 Roemellos. Roen is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Roemello against Roen, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Roemello Roen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 34 years in which either name was published, Roen for 25 years and Roemello for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Roemello Roen
Total US births 2621,121
Most in one year 57105
Babies in 2025 577
Estimated living today 2601,100
Median age today 267
Peak year 19952024
Best rank 1,603rd boys1,735th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th2,145th
First recorded 19941927
Girls / boys 0 / 262116 / 1,005

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Roemellos alive today are over 26; half the Roens are over 7. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Roemello and Roen.