Romeo is the Italian and Romanian form of the Late Latin Romaeus or Late Greek Romaios, which meant ‘from Rome’ or ‘Roman’.
Romeo is a first name for boys.
The name Romeo isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Romeo ranks 338. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Romeo. In the entire USA, approximately 19,574 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Romeo. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Romeo is the Italian and Romanian form of the Late Latin Romaeus or Late Greek Romaios, which meant ‘from Rome’ or ‘Roman’.
Did you know... that in medieval Italy Romeo was used as a word describing a pilgrim on his way to Rome?
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Romeo is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Romeo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Romeo, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Mouse
Elephant
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Romeo
Romeo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
M
E
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
O
M
E
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Romeo sounds like this:
