Roan
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #1,305 for boys in 2025, 149 births
Given to boys 90.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 149 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,734since 1926
Roan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #1,305 | 149 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #1,351 | 141 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,508 | 117 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,540 | 116 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #1,433 | 126 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #1,353 | 131 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #1,354 | 132 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,385 | 127 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #1,788 | 85 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,714 | 88 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,685 | 88 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,891 | 76 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #1,812 | 79 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #1,697 | 90 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #1,482 | 110 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #1,527 | 103 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #1,454 | 106 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,390 | 107 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #1,446 | 96 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #1,764 | 68 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,195 | 48 |
| 2001 | — | #2,489 | 39 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Roan! It came in at #4,201, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1938, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Roan
- 46 spots since 2024 (#1,351 → #1,305)
- 48 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,305)
- 320 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #1,305)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 2025 at #1,305 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,464 boys born in 2025 were named Roan (0.01%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Roan (991) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,201 (1926) | #4,201 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,113 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,794 |
| 1970s | 30 | #4,505 (1973) | #4,818 |
| 1980s | 28 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,092 |
| 1990s | 92 | #4,022 (1996) | #6,121 |
| 2000s | 784 | #1,390 (2005) | #1,916 |
| 2010s | 991 | #1,354 (2019) | #1,633 |
| 2020s | 780 | #1,305 (2025) | #1,415 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Roan in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 100,063 of them was named Roan, which outranked 62.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,521Zenna18
- #6,521Zenovia18
- #6,521Ziggy18
- #6,792Roan17
- #6,792Aanaya17
- #6,792Aara17
- #6,792Abbi17
- #7,100Aasha16
- #7,100Abena16
- #7,100Adaliz16
Tied with 307 names at #6,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 14,300 of them was named Roan, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,375Octavio128
- #1,375Ramsey128
- #1,375Wylder128
- #1,385Roan127
- #1,385Arham127
- #1,385Carmine127
- #1,385Cristobal127
- #1,396Aaryan126
- #1,396Johann126
- #1,396Kennedy126
Tied with 10 names at #1,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.