Romelia
Feminine
Romelia has two respectable accounts and no way to choose between them. Rome had a clan called the Romilii and a rural voting tribe named after them, and Romilia was a real Latin name. Spanish also builds women's names by blending — Rosa and Amelia collapse very neatly into this shape. Both were available, and the record does not say which a family meant.
How old is the name Romelia?
Romelia first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Romelia alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 1,200 people named Romelia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Romelia most popular?
Romelia peaked in 1941, reaching #1446 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 11,762 places below that high. See the whole 1941 chart.
Where it comes from
From Romilia to Romelia
The story of Romelia
Latin women's names built on family names spread through the Romance languages and a good many survived in Spanish that vanished elsewhere. Romelia is used across Mexico and Central America and appears in American records from 1912, peaking in the early 1940s and concentrated in California and Texas. Its shape — three open syllables, soft consonants, an -ia ending — is exactly the shape Spanish naming favors, which is part of why the blend reading is as plausible as the Roman one.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
If the name descends from the Roman Romilia, the gens name itself is unexplained, as most of them are — so the meaning would be belonging to a family whose own name means nothing recoverable. If it is a Spanish blend of Rosa and Amelia, then the parts mean a rose and, at a distance, work or striving. Neither can be shown.
How the name formed
- Romilia
- Romelia
Related forms: Romelia · Romilia · Romélia
Pronouncing Romelia
roh-MEH-lee-ah
Four syllables, stress on the second. English speakers usually say roh-MEEL-yuh in three, which is close enough that nobody is troubled.
Nicknames for Romelia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 196031 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1446reached in 1941
- Change vs 2023
- −76.0%6 in 2025, from 25
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Romelia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Romelia in Spanish — same name
- Romilia in Latin — related form
- Romélia in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Romelias among us
people named Romelia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Romelia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Wenonah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Romelia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Wenonah climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Wenonah's path sketches the road Romelia is walking now.
Romelia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Romelia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Romelia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Melia is available as a short form and is entirely current.
- Four open syllables with no consonant cluster anywhere in the name.
- It is standard in Spanish rather than an American coinage.
- It is genuinely rare in America, so a child will not meet another.
- Its meaning cannot be given, since neither of the two possible sources supplies one.
- Romelia, Romilia and Romela all appear, so the spelling has to be given.
- It belongs to an older generation and carries that flavor.
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Frequently asked
- How many Romelias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Romelia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Romelia in 2025?
- Romelia ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Romelia?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Romelia — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Romelia with classmates?
- Romelia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Romelia
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