Romario
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Romario is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 4.2K◐
- PEPeru1 in 14K
- COColombia1 in 22K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈54K ●
- Sources
- 122 ●
- 1 in 3.4K ◐
across 11 countries
45K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #477 | 50,538△ | 14K rec. | 1 in 4.2K | 60K | Romario | 122 |
| PE Peru | — | 15,862 | 13K rec. | — | — | Romario | 48 |
| CO Colombia | — | 2,783 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Romario | 52 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,661 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Romario | 77 |
| US United States | — | 1,614 | 6.5K rec. | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Romario | 121 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,216 | 786 rec. | — | 3 | Romario | 27 |
| JM Jamaica | #85 | 890 | 908 rec. | — | — | Romario | 20 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 728 | 714 rec. | — | — | Romario | 12 |
| SV El Salvador | — | 720 | 472 rec. | — | — | Romario | 9 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 695△ | 67 rec. | 1 in 24K | 695 | Romario | 20 |
| GT Guatemala | #641 | 616 | 615 rec. | — | — | Romario | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 397 | 216 rec. | 1 in 44K | 397 | Romario | 21 |
Roughly 51K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 4.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese799K89%
- English58K6%
- Spanish27K3%
- French1.6K1%
- Indonesian1.4K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 798,767 | 89% |
| English | 58,038 | 6% |
| Spanish | 27,480 | 3% |
| French | 1,608 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 1,393 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 102 |
| 1995 | 77 |
| 1996 | 52 |
| 1997 | 57 |
| 1998 | 51 |
| 1999 | 37 |
| 2000 | 37 |
| 2001 | 40 |
| 2002 | 36 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 43 |
| 2005 | 33 |
| 2006 | 41 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 30 |
| 2009 | 24 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 26 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 27 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 23 |
| 2022 | 35 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2024 | 23 |
| 2025 | 25 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1989–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Romáriob. 1966BRFormer Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 2015
- Romário Piresb. 1989BRBrazilian footballer
- Romário Ricardo da Silvab. 1990BRBrazilian association football player
- Romario Benzarb. 1992RORomanian association football player
- Romário Leiria de Mourab. 1992BRfootballer
- Romario Ibarrab. 1994ECEcuadorian professional football player
- Romario Williamsb. 1994JMJamaican footballer
- Romário Baldéb. 1996PTBissau-Guinean footballer (born 1996)
- Romarjo Hajrullab. 1998ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian football player
- Romario Röschb. 1999DEGerman association football player
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●
Attested in 63 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 60K | #682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 51K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50K | #564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,797 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 695 | #827 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 397 | #1,892 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 329 | #1,287 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 231 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 228 | #5,060 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 220 | #378 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 214 | #564 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 110 | #2,045 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 309 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Romario?
- We estimate roughly 54 thousand people bear Romario (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Romario have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 51 thousand people bear Romario in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled romario.
- Where is Romario most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Romario is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Romario compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Romario is the 477th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Romario a male or female name?
- Romario 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Romario” — the 477th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.