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Romello

#2,530 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Romello has been given to 2,306 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,530 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Romello, 2025

1 in 62,600

Romello over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Romello: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Romello means

Romello is a given name.

The naming story behind Romello

Wikidata records Romello as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q64034626, 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, 2,306 boys were recorded with the name Romello between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1995; its best national rank was #839 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,203 in 2020 to #2,530 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,345 in 2015 to #2,530 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 Romello?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,530
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Romello 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Romello. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Romellos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Romello was born before 2008 — so the typical Romello is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,306
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (723).

Is Romello 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
−246
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−327
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 1995 (164)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#839
1995

Spellings of Romello

Romello is not the most common spelling — Romeo is, with 38.5% against Romello's 3.3%.

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 Romello is used

Across 2016–2025, Romello was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 39,462 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Romello around the world

Where Romello 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
    1996–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #1,753
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #520
    in 1968

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Romello

People whose public names include Romello, 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.

Romello in other languages

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

MelloRomeoRomellRomeloRomuloRomelle

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

Romello by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,530
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 327
Best rank ever
#839
1995
Peak year
1995
164 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,306
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Romello

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

RomarioRomaineRomeroRommelRomellRomeloRomelRomulusRomuloRomieCarmelloCamilloOthelloAngelloRomariDialloMarcelloRomanceRomenRomeKarmelloRomaniRommieApollo

Names with a curve like Romello

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

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Sibling names for Romello

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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