Romeo
A Latin name meaning "pilgrim to Rome", given only to boys in Poland. Most Poles have never met one, but the count is inching up: a handful of newborns each year lately, more than the years before.
Romeo Pronunciation
Romeo is pronounced ro-ME-o (/rɔˈmɛɔ/).
What Romeo means
Where Romeo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romeo begins in Latin. The word Romaeus named a pilgrim who had reached Rome, and the name kept that meaning as it passed into Italian speech. Its sense is plain and old: a pilgrim to Rome.
In Italy the name settled into everyday use, and it traveled far past Verona once Shakespeare gave it to the young lover in Romeo and Juliet, printed around 1597. A single character can carry a name for centuries, and this one did. On a Polish class register today, a boy called Romeo reads as Italian and southern.
The name has no diminutives or variant forms. It arrives whole. Whoever carries it carries the Latin root openly, a pilgrim to Rome.
How many people are named Romeo
1 in 63720 men in Poland is named Romeo. 335 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1649 among male names.
Romeo's popularity over time
7 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #833 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Romeo is most popular
Romeo is most popular in Silesian, 217% above the national average (5 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+127%) and Lower Silesian (+83%).
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Silesian5 boys born+217%
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Łódź2 boys born+127%
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Lower Silesian2 boys born+83%
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Masovian4 boys born+63%
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+27%
Romeo as a middle name
Romeo is a first name for 335 men in Poland and a middle name for another 111, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 671st, between Ramon (111) and Wojtek (111).
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#669 Eugene111
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#670 Ramon111
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#671 Romeo111
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#672 Wojtek111
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#673 Neil110