Romeo

What Romeo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Romeo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #380 in 2015 to #301 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Romeo?

US: Rising: up from #380 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #346 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,191 boys got the name (#283 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,513 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,046 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 818 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (2.15 per 1,000 boys), RI (1.6 per 1,000 boys), NV (1.42 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Romeo is #301 in the US and #198 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Romeo were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Romie14 US · 30 E&W
• Romio8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Romeo

Boys

• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Crew#256“weir”^*

For a sister

• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Juliet#274Editor’s note Down from #240 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 in the US
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Myla#210Editor’s note Up from #335 in 2015 to #210 in 2025 in the US
• Elliana#139Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #301 in 2015, #139 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Romeo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.