Romel
#3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 48 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,486since 1953
Romel over time
Rank among boys' names. Romel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,089 | 39 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #2,919 | 43 |
| 2021 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #3,496 | 32 |
| 2018 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 47 |
| 2013 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #2,415 | 52 |
| 2011 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #2,037 | 67 |
| 2009 | #2,099 | 65 |
| 2008 | #2,405 | 53 |
| 2007 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #2,285 | 55 |
| 2005 | #2,399 | 48 |
| 2004 | #2,376 | 47 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #1,723 | 67 |
| 2001 | #1,800 | 62 |
| 2000 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #1,768 | 57 |
| 1997 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #1,725 | 54 |
| 1995 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,875 | 44 |
| 1992 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #1,382 | 67 |
| 1990 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,154 | 32 |
| 1988 | #1,849 | 36 |
| 1987 | #1,760 | 37 |
| 1986 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #1,569 | 41 |
| 1984 | #1,656 | 35 |
| 1983 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #1,464 | 43 |
| 1981 | #1,373 | 47 |
| 1980 | #1,524 | 40 |
| 1979 | #1,833 | 30 |
| 1978 | #1,299 | 48 |
| 1977 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #1,862 | 23 |
| 1970 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #2,217 | 15 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #2,279 | 13 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #1,838 | 19 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
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| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Romel! It came in at #3,143, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1954, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Romel
- 246 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,089)
- 645 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #3,089)
- 448 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #3,089)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1978 at #1,299 (48 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,637 boys born in 2010 were named Romel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,299 in 1978, was only 1 in 34,205 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.0% of all boys named Romel (522) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 59 | #1,838 (1958) | #2,841 |
| 1960s | 88 | #2,139 (1967) | #3,136 |
| 1970s | 236 | #1,299 (1978) | #2,046 |
| 1980s | 369 | #1,373 (1981) | #1,732 |
| 1990s | 498 | #1,382 (1991) | #1,815 |
| 2000s | 522 | #1,723 (2002) | #2,294 |
| 2010s | 484 | #2,037 (2010) | #2,612 |
| 2020s | 230 | #2,895 (2023) | #3,148 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Romel in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 50,459 of them was named Romel, which outranked 78.4% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,734Trung38
- #1,734Ubaldo38
- #1,734Weldon38
- #1,760Romel37
- #1,760Aarron37
- #1,760Adams37
- #1,760Amado37
- #1,793Adolph36
- #1,793Bretton36
- #1,793Cardell36
Tied with 32 names at #1,760; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.