# Romario (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/romario/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,128 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,128 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 424, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 3,967 |
| 2012 | 27 | 3,867 |
| 2013 | 27 | 3,837 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,826 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,940 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,991 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,711 |
| 2018 | 12 | 7,038 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,772 |
| 2020 | 27 | 3,898 |
| 2021 | 23 | 4,465 |
| 2022 | 35 | 3,396 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,316 |
| 2024 | 23 | 4,538 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,227 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 12 | 1,852 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Romario

- Romário, Former Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 2015
- Romario Ibarra, Ecuadorian professional football player
- Romário Ricardo da Silva, Brazilian association football player
- Romário, Brazilian footballer (born 1985)
- Romário Baldé, Bissau-Guinean footballer (born 1996)
- Romário Guilherme dos Santos, Brazilian association football player
- Romário Pires, Brazilian footballer
- Romário Leiria de Moura, footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.