Greek Wiktionary account
Source-reportedRomulus < λατινική Romulus
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- Greek Wiktionary: RomulusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Wikidata Q19842123CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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01 / Meaning & origin
Romulus is a masculine given name.
Romulus < λατινική Romulus
02 / Across borders
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United States, 2025: 23 boys (rank 4396). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1880–2025 Spelling: Romulus
Recorded category boys
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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Applications | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1881 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1882 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1883 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1884 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1885 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1886 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1887 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1888 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1889 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1890 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1891 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1892 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1893 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1894 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1895 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1896 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1897 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1898 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1899 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | 5 | 2,544 | observed |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | 5 | 3,264 | observed |
| 1915 | 8 | 2,829 | observed |
| 1916 | 5 | 3,897 | observed |
| 1917 | 5 | 3,981 | observed |
| 1918 | 5 | 4,179 | observed |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,168 | observed |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | 6 | 3,872 | observed |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | 8 | 3,260 | observed |
| 1925 | 9 | 2,936 | observed |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | 7 | 3,451 | observed |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,076 | observed |
| 1929 | 7 | 3,247 | observed |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | 6 | 3,390 | observed |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | 5 | 3,642 | observed |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | 6 | 3,252 | observed |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,552 | observed |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | 5 | 4,039 | observed |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | 5 | 3,966 | observed |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1970 | 12 | 2,739 | observed |
| 1971 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1972 | 5 | 4,986 | observed |
| 1973 | 5 | 5,101 | observed |
| 1974 | 9 | 3,558 | observed |
| 1975 | 5 | 5,464 | observed |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | 9 | 3,836 | observed |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,056 | observed |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | 6 | 6,941 | observed |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,117 | observed |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,435 | observed |
| 1993 | 5 | 8,700 | observed |
| 1994 | 5 | 8,800 | observed |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | 7 | 8,339 | observed |
| 2002 | 7 | 8,456 | observed |
| 2003 | 6 | 9,581 | observed |
| 2004 | 9 | 7,536 | observed |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,472 | observed |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | 5 | 12,367 | observed |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,491 | observed |
| 2010 | 8 | 8,803 | observed |
| 2011 | 14 | 5,945 | observed |
| 2012 | 8 | 8,864 | observed |
| 2013 | 7 | 9,655 | observed |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,491 | observed |
| 2016 | 8 | 8,816 | observed |
| 2017 | 8 | 8,840 | observed |
| 2018 | 10 | 7,617 | observed |
| 2019 | 15 | 5,813 | observed |
| 2020 | 19 | 4,855 | observed |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,562 | observed |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,215 | observed |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,456 | observed |
| 2024 | 31 | 3,605 | observed |
| 2025 | 23 | 4,396 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Romulus” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
ROMULUS— “fame (?)”
Others, however, call Quirinus the mere personified god of the town of Cures. When all had become confusion in the Roman mind as to their old objects of worship, and they had mingled them with “gods whom their fathers knew not,” they took it into their heads that Quirinus was the deified Romulus who had been transported to the skies by his father, Mars, in the middle of a muster of his warriors in the Campus Martius; and when a still later age distrusted this apotheosis, some…
Others, however, call Quirinus the mere personified god of the town of Cures. When all had become confusion in the Roman mind as to their old objects of worship, and they had mingled them with “gods whom their fathers knew not,” they took it into their heads that Quirinus was the deified Romulus who had been transported to the skies by his father, Mars, in the middle of a muster of his warriors in the Campus Martius; and when a still later age distrusted this apotheosis, some rationalist Roman suggested that, weary of Romulus' tyranny, the senators had secretly assassinated him during the review, and to prevent detection had cut his body to pieces, each carried a portion home under his toga, and professed to have beheld the translation to the skies. Quirinus had become a cognomen at the Christian era, but first occurs as a Christian name in 304, when St. Quirinus was Bishop of Siscia on the Save, and after a good confession before the tyrant Maximus, was dragged in chains through the cities on the banks of the Danube, and then drowned at Sabaria, now Sarwar.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter V (Names From Roman Deities), Section VI (Quirinus) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.