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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 136,678 of them was named Roan, which outranked 51.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,032Zolani13
- #8,032Zulay13
- #8,032Zyriah13
- #8,542Roan12
- #8,542Aaila12
- #8,542Aamina12
- #8,542Aamiyah12
- #9,056Aakifah11
- #9,056Aalaya11
- #9,056Aariya11
Tied with 513 names at #8,542; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 15,052 of them was named Roan, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,532Mahir117
- #1,532Mauro117
- #1,532Santi117
- #1,540Roan116
- #1,540Aven116
- #1,540Brayson116
- #1,540Coby116
- #1,551Dale115
- #1,551Don115
- #1,551Iverson115
Tied with 10 names at #1,540; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.