Romeo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romeo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In English, recorded as Pilgrim to Rome; famous Shakespearian character.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 386(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 2.7K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Romeo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 386 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pilgrim to Rome; famous Shakespearian character
Sources 1
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Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Romeo is read(measured from records)
Romeo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
Pilgrim to Rome; famous Shakespearian character
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A male given name from the Romance languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish33%
del bajo latín Romaeus, 'romero' o peregrino a Roma.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Romeo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #159 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | — | Romeo | 109 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Romeo | 84 |
| US United States | — | 22,794 | 1 in 15K | 23K | Romeo | 279 |
| IT Italy | #920 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 287 | Romeo | 159 |
| RO Romania | #374 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Romeo | 79 |
| GT Guatemala | #122 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Romeo | 37 |
| GE Georgia | #434 | 1,183as რომეო | 1 in 3.4K | 1.2K | Romeo | 25 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,058 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.1K | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Romeo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Medieval religious name meaning ‘pilgrim to Rome’, from Latin Roma ‘Rome’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Equivale a pellegrino; forse riduzione di Borromeo.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Swedish, Romeo är från början ett romerskt binamn, Romaeus, med betydelsen ’medborgare i romerska riket; (senare) pilgrim till Rom’. Det har blivit allmänt känt genom Shake speares tragedi Romeo och Julia, uppförd första gången ca 1595 och tryckt 1597 i London. Shakespeare lånade namnet och pjäsens tema från en italiensk berättelse skriven ca 1530 av Matteo Bandello.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Romeo Bertinib. 1893ITItalian athlete (1893-1973)
- Romeo Nerib. 1903ITItalian gymnast, 3 Olympic golds (1903–1961)
- Romeo Benettib. 1945ITItalian footballer
- Roméo Dallaireb. 1946CACanadian humanitarian, author, and retired senator and general
- Marcello Lippib. 1948ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football player and manager
- Romeo Castelluccib. 1960ITtheatre director
- Romeo Tanakab. 1973JPJapanese free artist and scenario writer for bishōjo games and adult games, and light novelist
- Romeo Castelenb. 1983NLDutch footballer
- Romeo Millerb. 1989USAmerican rapper, actor and basketball player
- Romeo Beckhamb. 2002GBEnglish association football player (born 2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 119 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,475 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.1K | #459 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 287 | #95 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80 | #1,475 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Romeo mean, and where does it come from?
- Pilgrim to Rome; famous Shakespearian character Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Romeo a male or female name?
- Romeo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Romeo?
- In the etymology graph, Roman, Romain and Romeu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Romeo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 283 thousand people named Romeo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled romeo.
- How common is the name Romeo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,794 people named Romeo in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Romeo compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Romeo is the 159th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/romeoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Romeo” — the 159th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.