Romario
#4,226 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Romario has been given to 1,128 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,226 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 102 recorded.
Babies named Romario, 2025
1 in 133,000
Romario over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Romario?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 68,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,226
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Romario sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Romarios were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Romario was born before 2003 — so the typical Romario is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 36.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,128
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (410).
Is Romario rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +308
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −331
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,710
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 24.5%
- Peak was 1994 (102)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.6% average annual change
Spellings of Romario
Romario is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 79.7% against Romario's 0.59%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Romario is used
Across 1910–2025, Romario was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 142,005 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Romario has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Romario around the world
Where Romario ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#3,256in 2025
- France1990–2025#4,357in 2025
- Canada1994–2015#2,414in 2015
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Romario by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Romario
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Romario
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.