Romelle
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Romelle has been given to 497 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Romelle, 1989
1 in 768,000
Romelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Romelle over time
In 2021, Romelle went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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 Romelle?
Romelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,842,268 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 368,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,653 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Romelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Romelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Romelle was born before 1943 — so the typical Romelle is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 29.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 128
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (99).
Is Romelle 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (22)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.9% average annual change
Spellings of Romelle
Romelle is not the most common spelling — Rochelle is, with 31.9% against Romelle'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 Romelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Romelle was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 392,008 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Romelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Romelle around the world
Where Romelle 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 & Wales2007–2024#3,689in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Romelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Romelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Romelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.