Romeo
Romeo is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 283rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 301st. About 24,000 Romeos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Romeo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,864
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 283rd
- Rank in 2025
- 301st
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Romeos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,864 babies given the name since 1880, about 24,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 640 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Romance languages
from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (“Roman”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Romeos
- Roméo Lavia (born 2004)Belgian association football player
- Romeo Benetti (born 1945)Italian footballer
- Romeo Castelen (born 1983)Dutch footballer
- Romeo Santos (born 1981)American singer
- Romeo Miller (born 1989)American rapper, actor and basketball player
- Roméo Dallaire (born 1946)Canadian humanitarian, author, and retired senator and general
- Romeo Bertini (1893–1973)Italian athlete
- Romeo Neri (1903–1961)Italian gymnast, 3 Olympic golds
People named Romeo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Romeo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Romeo is most concentrated in Nevada (4.9×), Maine (3.1×), Arizona (2.9×), Texas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Romeo peaked:
Romeo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Roméo +2 spellings | 15,055 | 82nd |
| England and Wales boys | Romeo | 3,379 | 185th |
| Italy boys | Romeo | 2,789 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Romeo +1 spelling | 1,640 | 84th |
| Belgium boys | Roméo +1 spelling | 1,464 | 143rd |
| Scotland boys | Romeo | 152 | 174th |
| Ireland boys | Romeo | 89 | 401st |
| Poland boys | Romeo | 55 birth registrations | 394th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Romeo | 11 | 272nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Romeo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Romeo | 872 | 0.070% | 85th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Roméo | 59 | 0.005% | 631st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Romeo | 310 | 0.071% | 69th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Roméo | 299 | 0.069% | 65th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Romeo | 97 | 0.149% | 22nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Roméo | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Romeo | 2 | 0.054% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Romeo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.16% of children were given it – 98 of them.
Romeo: rank by region
In 2025, Romeo was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Romeo | 409 | 14 |
| Flanders | Roméo | 536 | 10 |
| Wallonia | Roméo | 53 | 55 |
| Wallonia | Romeo | 116 | 25 |
| Brussels | Roméo | 187 | 7 |
In 2025, Romeo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Romeo | 254 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Romeo appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (Roméo, 21st), Province of Hainaut (Roméo, 38th), Province of Namur (Roméo, 66th), Province of Hainaut (Romeo, 72nd), Province of Liège (Roméo, 86th), Province of Liège (Romeo, 147th), Brussels-Capital Region (Roméo, 187th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (Roméo, 218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Romeo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 19 | 321st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Romeo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Romeo +1 spelling | 549 | 1,005 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Romeo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,143 men called Romeo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Málaga | Romeo | 286 | 0.327 | 244 |
| Cádiz | Romeo | 201 | 0.324 | 238 |
| Granada | Romeo | 124 | 0.267 | 287 |
| Sevilla | Romeo | 229 | 0.237 | 273 |
| Córdoba | Romeo | 63 | 0.167 | 332 |
| Ceuta | Romeo | 7 | 0.166 | 521 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Romeo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.