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Romell

Gender
Boy
Say it
roh-MEL
UK rank, 2025
#5,065 for boys
US rank, 2025
#4,395 for boys

Romell is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 4,395th for boys in the US (23 babies).

Where does Romell come from?

Spelling of Romel; origin uncertain; used in Spanish-speaking and Filipino families

Meaning borrowed from Romel.

Is Romell a girl's or a boy's name?

Romell is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 23 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Romell in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,065th among boys
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Romell, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2004, with 5 boys.

Half of all the boys named Romell in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

2002Busiest: 5 in 20042025
Romell in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20243#5,198
20230–
20223#5,017
20214#4,188
20200–
20194#4,126
20180–
20170–
20160–
20153#4,955
20144#4,063
20133#4,884
20120–
20110–
20103#4,865
20095#3,395
20080–
20073#4,486
20064#3,522
20053#3,992
20045#2,691
20030–
20024#2,751

How popular is Romell in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,395th among boys
Babies in 2025
23 about 1 in 74,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 23 boys in the US were named Romell, making it the 4,395th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,536th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 39 boys. It first appears in the records in 1944.

Half of all the boys named Romell in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 82 boys in the US were given Romell or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,661, up from #4,395 for this spelling alone.

1944Busiest: 39 in 20142025
Romell in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202523#4,395
202416#5,655
202321#4,738
202224#4,299
202121#4,624
202021#4,536
201926#4,000
201823#4,350
201727#3,885
201626#3,989
201531#3,512
201439#2,927
201325#3,962
201237#3,057
201132#3,363
201032#3,376
200928#3,719
200834#3,284
200722#4,373
200636#3,023
200529#3,385
200425#3,632
200317#4,611
200227#3,255
200131#2,926
200032#2,800
199925#3,178
199829#2,779
199727#2,819
199620#3,400
199534#2,294
199428#2,613
199322#3,036
199219#3,331
199128#2,463
199027#2,483
198920#2,983
198816#3,198
198717#2,938
198624#2,288
198517#2,825
198433#1,722
198327#1,954
198219#2,517
198124#2,137
198021#2,366
197933#1,711
197829#1,794
197717#2,555
197625#1,931
197511#3,244
197421#2,050
197316#2,403
197218#2,158
197116#2,365
197015#2,398
19699#3,061
19680–
19670–
19667#3,247
19657#3,242
19640–
19635#4,047
19628#3,039
19610–
19606#3,663
19590–
19586#3,557
19576#3,550
19567#3,214
19558#2,962
19546#3,450
19539#2,708
19520–
19516#3,362
19505#3,678
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19446#3,108

Names like Romell

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Romell

Names related to Romell

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Romell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/romell, updated 20 October 2026.