Meaning not yet researched.
Romel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,321 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,321 in 1978; #3,116 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Romel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,116 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,321.
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Romel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,321 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 67 (2010).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Romel, making it the 3,116th most common boys’ name of the year, up 265 places from #3,381 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 35 boys named Romel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,321, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 67, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Romel in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 7 babies. In all, 2,486 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 522 babies named Romel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 394 US boys were named Romel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rome (6,075 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Romell, Ramel and Rommel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Romell (1,582), Ramel (1,561), Rommel (1,519), Romelle (497), Rumeal (73), Rommell (56), Romil (40), Romale (27), Romal (10), Rumell (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Romel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,116 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,938 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,952 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,960 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,792 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,553 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,836 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,938 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,613 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,673 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,613 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,326 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,442 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,397 |
| 2010 | — | — | 67 | #2,050 |
| 2009 | — | — | 65 | #2,115 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,426 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,498 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,308 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,421 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,410 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,255 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,738 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,810 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,215 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,016 |
| 1998 | — | — | 57 | #1,787 |
| 1997 | — | — | 51 | #1,853 |
| 1996 | — | — | 54 | #1,735 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,132 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,602 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,894 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,997 |
| 1991 | — | — | 67 | #1,394 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,935 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,193 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,875 |
| 1987 | — | — | 37 | #1,790 |
| 1986 | — | — | 35 | #1,786 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,588 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,685 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,258 |
| 1982 | — | — | 43 | #1,481 |
| 1981 | — | — | 47 | #1,391 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,541 |
| 1979 | — | — | 30 | #1,860 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,321 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,440 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,100 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,988 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,039 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,483 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,516 |
| 1971 | — | — | 23 | #1,904 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,381 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,288 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,051 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,482 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,741 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,503 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,271 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,343 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,549 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,504 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,916 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,883 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,503 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,764 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,720 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,377 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).