Romeo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Romeo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Romeo: Recorded every year since 1998, its highest recorded position is #185, and it stood at #198 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#185highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1998–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2901
1999	#2943
2000	#1889
2001	#1379
2002	#656
2003	#490
2004	#417
2005	#417
2006	#458
2007	#412
2008	#405
2009	#461
2010	#343
2011	#341
2012	#279
2013	#278
2014	#330
2015	#346
2016	#338
2017	#365
2018	#360
2019	#283
2020	#243
2021	#234
2022	#211
2023	#223
2024	#185
2025	#198

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1998 to 2025.

In 2025: #198 among boys in England and Wales, #432 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2025
Highest recorded position: #185 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #198 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Romeo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 3,379 births with the name.

Romeo across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Romeo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#185 (2024)	#198 (2025)	28 of 28	3,379 (1998–2025)	270 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#451 (2002)	#375 (2003)	#432 (2025)	16 of 24	89 (2002–2025)	9 (2012)

Romeo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Romeo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	557	10 of 10	56
2010s	1,418	10 of 10	142
2020sbusiest	1,398	6 of 10	233

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 233 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Romeo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #185 in England and Wales in 2024.

Romeo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#198	260	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#185	270	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#223	218	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#211	242	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#234	214	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#243	194	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#283	172	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#360	125	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#365	126	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#338	140	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#346	133	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#330	138	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#278	167	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#279	168	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#341	127	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#343	122	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#461	78	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#405	91	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#412	87	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#458	70	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#417	70	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#417	66	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#490	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#656	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#272	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#432	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#407	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#246	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Romeo is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Romeo, between 1998 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1998–2025	28	#185 in 2024
Republic of Ireland	2002–2025	16	#375 in 2003
Northern Ireland	2023	1	#272 in 2023
Scotland	2024	1	#246 in 2024

Its high point came 21 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (2003) than in England and Wales (2024).

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #185, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 270 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Romee · #407, 12y
Romell · #2578, 15y
Romero · #1655, 25y
Romey · #638, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Esmee · #185, 30y
Coen · #186, 25y
Darla · #184, 24y
Lily-Mae · #186, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Barnaby · #185, 30y
Eiril · #185, 26y
Esmee · #185, 30y
Coen · #186, 25y

Romeo was ranked #185 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nico#183
Maxwell#184
Jake#185
Jaxson#185
Rayan#188
Zain#189
Micah#190
Rome#191

Romeo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Romeo without appearing here.

Romeo moved ahead of

Harald
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #458 and #4052.
Willow
In 2004 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #417 and #3849.
Rune
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #417 and #3651.
Harper
In 2000 they stood at #2943 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1379 and #2587.

Moved ahead of Romeo

Brodie
In 2012 they stood at #401 and #430 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2013 that had become #605 and #383.
Jackson
In 2009 they stood at #423 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2010 that had become #542 and #322.
Cooper
In 2011 they stood at #490 and #623 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #401 and #233.
Filip
In 2003 they stood at #375 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #506 and #390.

Moved the opposite way to Romeo

Aaron
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 while Aaron went from #31 to #180.
Alan
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 while Alan went from #196 to #539.
Alex
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 while Alex went from #46 to #207.
Alexander
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 while Alexander went from #19 to #40.

Moved the same way as Romeo

Albie
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 and Albie from #716 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 and Alfred from #174 to #76.
Archie
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Romeo went from #2901 to #198 and Archie from #120 to #11.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #185 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Romeo

Romeo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Romeo across 2 official records

Romeo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Romeo appears in

Popularity data

Where Romeo is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Romeo

Romeo and the names beside it

Romeo moved ahead of

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Romeo at a glance

Romeo across 2 official records

Romeo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Romeo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Romeo

Romeo and the names beside it

Romeo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Romeo

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