Romeo

Romeo is the 4,156th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,249 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,249
Rank: 4,156th
How common: 1 in 36,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Romeo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Hispanic or Latino 9.7%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Romeo

Max Romeo (1944–2025)Jamaican singer-songwriter
Paolo Romeo (born 1938)Italian archbishop
Nicola Romeo (1876–1938)Italian engineer and entrepreneur
Michael Romeo (born 1968)American guitarist
Bernardo Romeo (born 1977)Argentine footballer
Leona Marlin-Romeo (born 1973)Dutch politician
Iván Romeo (born 2003)Spanish cyclist

People named Romeo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Romeo

Also a first name

Romeo has been given to 26,864 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.