Meaning and history
Roméo is the Italian form of the Late Latin Romaeus or Late Greek Ρωμαῖος (Romaios), meaning “from Rome” or “Roman.” The name is best known from William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1596), where Romeo is Juliet’s lover; Shakespeare drew the play from earlier Italian stories by Luigi Da Porto (1524) and Matteo Bandello (1554), both of which featured characters named Giulietta and Romeo.
20062006: 436 births, rank #572
2007: 528 births, rank #499
2008: 596 births, rank #464
2009: 718 births, rank #411
2010: 850 births, rank #357
20112011: 835 births, rank #360
2012: 980 births, rank #322
2013: 955 births, rank #337
2014: 972 births, rank #341
2015: 852 births, rank #380
20162016: 908 births, rank #365
2017: 924 births, rank #358
2018: 981 births, rank #341
2019: 972 births, rank #346
2020: 820 births, rank #377
20212021: 928 births, rank #350
2022: 1,045 births, rank #323
2023: 1,132 births, rank #292
2024: 1,191 births, rank #283
20252025: 1,129 births, rank #301
Romeo moved from #283 to #302 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2024, with 1,191 births.