Romell

#4,508 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Romell has been given to 1,582 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #4,508 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 39 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Romell, 2025

1 in 144,000

Romell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Romell over time

In 2025, Romell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19202025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Romell?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,508
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romell 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romell was born before 1998 — so the typical Romell is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,478
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2010s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (298).

Is Romell 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
+1,338
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+160
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−937
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.0%
Peak was 2014 (39)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,747
1979

Spellings of Romell

Romell is not the most common spelling — Lowell is, with 29.7% against Romell's 1.1%.

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 Romell is used

Across 1910–2025, Romell was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 197,872 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 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. Romell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Romell around the world

Where Romell 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
    2002–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Romell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,508
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 160
Best rank ever
#1,747
1979
Peak year
2014
39 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,484
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,363
1939
Peak year
1921
8 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Romell

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

Sibling names for Romell

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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