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Romel

#3,115 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Romel has been given to 2,486 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #3,115 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Romel, 2025

1 in 85,000

Romel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romel means

Romel is a given name.

The naming story behind Romel

Wikidata records Romel as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q19902094, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,486 boys were recorded with the name Romel between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,321 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,789 in 2020 to #3,115 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,672 in 2015 to #3,115 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Romel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,115
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romel was born before 1999 — so the typical Romel is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,486
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (522).

Is Romel 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
+264
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+674
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−443
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.2%
Peak was 1991 (67)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,321
1978

Spellings of Romel

Romel is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 41.2% against Romel's 0.23%.

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 Romel is used

Across 1910–2025, Romel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 88,397 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Romel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Romel around the world

Where Romel 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 & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2005–2005
    #4,780
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1998–2001
    #581
    in 2001

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.

Notable people named Romel

People whose public names include Romel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Romel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Romel. Linked forms have their own page here.

RomeRamelRomalRonelRomellRomeloRommel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Romel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,115
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 674
Best rank ever
#1,321
1978
Peak year
1991
67 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,486
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Romel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RommelRomieRomeroRomellRomeloRomeRomelloRomenRamelRomuloRomeyRomirRomaRomarioRomeoRomynRomaineRomarCarmelJermelKamelJamelRomariRomy

Names with a curve like Romel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Romel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Romel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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