How Many People Are Named Romeo?
people named Romeo are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 14,543 people in the US has this name
Based on 26,864 babies named Romeo in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,191 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Italian form of the Late Latin name Romaeus meaning "a pilgrim to Rome". Romeo is best known as the lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' (1596).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Romeo in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Romeo alive today is about 16 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Romeo first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2024, to 1,191 babies. In 2025, 1,129 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Romeo has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #283, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #302.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #302 |
| Best rank | #283 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #356 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Romeo alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Romeo were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,668 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Romeo was given 4.4 times as often in Maine, 2.4 times in Nevada and 2.1 times in New Hampshire.
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