Romulo
Romulo reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 3,501, and has been recorded 842 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 670 Romulos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Romulo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 842
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 3,501st
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Romulos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 842 babies given the name since 1912, about 670 are alive — 80 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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.
Notable Romulos
- Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969)Venezuelan politician and writer
- Rómulo Betancourt (1908–1981)President of Venezuela
- Rômulo (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
- Rômulo (born 1990)Brazilian association football player
- Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (1800–1877)President of Mexico
- Rómulo Otero (born 1992)Venezuelan footballer
- Romulo Valles (born 1951)Filipino Catholic archbishop
- Rômulo Cabral Pereira Pinto (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
People named Romulo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Romulo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Romulo is most concentrated in Texas (8.3×), California (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Romulo peaked:
Where Romulo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 385 men called Romulo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Romulo | 34 | 0.064 | 1,318 |
| Ourense | Romulo | 5 | 0.034 | 1,197 |
| Palmas, Las | Romulo | 19 | 0.033 | 2,246 |
| Pontevedra | Romulo | 14 | 0.031 | 1,241 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Romulo | 8 | 0.026 | 1,973 |
| Murcia | Romulo | 17 | 0.021 | 1,954 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 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
Romulo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.