Roel
#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 76 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,711since 1926
Roel over time
Rank among boys' names. Roel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,236 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #2,445 | 53 |
| 2017 | #2,532 | 50 |
| 2016 | #3,111 | 37 |
| 2015 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #2,326 | 55 |
| 2011 | #2,035 | 66 |
| 2010 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #2,381 | 54 |
| 2008 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #2,051 | 67 |
| 2006 | #2,150 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,114 | 58 |
| 2004 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #1,764 | 68 |
| 2002 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #1,479 | 83 |
| 1999 | #1,503 | 75 |
| 1998 | #1,585 | 66 |
| 1997 | #1,693 | 58 |
| 1996 | #1,725 | 54 |
| 1995 | #1,508 | 63 |
| 1994 | #1,383 | 71 |
| 1993 | #1,420 | 67 |
| 1992 | #1,525 | 58 |
| 1991 | #1,652 | 50 |
| 1990 | #1,420 | 62 |
| 1989 | #1,362 | 65 |
| 1988 | #1,270 | 65 |
| 1987 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,199 | 63 |
| 1985 | #1,290 | 55 |
| 1984 | #1,028 | 75 |
| 1983 | #1,016 | 76 |
| 1982 | #1,039 | 76 |
| 1981 | #1,062 | 74 |
| 1980 | #996 | 82 |
| 1979 | #1,193 | 58 |
| 1978 | #1,051 | 69 |
| 1977 | #1,113 | 61 |
| 1976 | #1,042 | 64 |
| 1975 | #933 | 77 |
| 1974 | #948 | 74 |
| 1973 | #962 | 70 |
| 1972 | #1,083 | 56 |
| 1971 | #985 | 68 |
| 1970 | #1,000 | 66 |
| 1969 | #877 | 76 |
| 1968 | #1,017 | 53 |
| 1967 | #925 | 61 |
| 1966 | #1,007 | 52 |
| 1965 | #912 | 66 |
| 1964 | #914 | 69 |
| 1963 | #1,195 | 42 |
| 1962 | #939 | 65 |
| 1961 | #1,042 | 56 |
| 1960 | #916 | 68 |
| 1959 | #1,034 | 55 |
| 1958 | #1,163 | 44 |
| 1957 | #1,199 | 42 |
| 1956 | #1,032 | 53 |
| 1955 | #1,273 | 35 |
| 1954 | #1,112 | 45 |
| 1953 | #1,189 | 39 |
| 1952 | #1,166 | 40 |
| 1951 | #1,553 | 23 |
| 1950 | #1,256 | 33 |
| 1949 | #1,322 | 30 |
| 1948 | #1,519 | 23 |
| 1947 | #1,519 | 24 |
| 1946 | #1,642 | 19 |
| 1945 | #1,852 | 14 |
| 1944 | #1,810 | 15 |
| 1943 | #1,986 | 14 |
| 1942 | #2,042 | 13 |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | #1,397 | 23 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,868 | 7 |
| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | #2,452 | 9 |
| 1935 | #2,719 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Roel! It came in at #3,708, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1930, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Roel is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#298 · 1 in 1,947
Best ever in a state: #284 in Texas, 1969.
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| Texas | #298 | 63 | 1 in 1,947 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Roel
- 244 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,480)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #2,480)
- 439 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #2,480)
- Biggest jump: 281 spots in 1964 (#1,195 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 256 spots in 1963 (#939 → #1,195)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1969 at #877 (76 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 47 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1969–1971
- Highest: 1 in 20,277 boys born in 1975 were named Roel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #877 in 1969, was only 1 in 23,529 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 14.8% of all boys named Roel (698) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 6 | #3,708 (1926) | #3,708 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,452 (1936) | #3,196 |
| 1940s | 183 | #1,322 (1949) | #1,775 |
| 1950s | 409 | #1,032 (1956) | #1,198 |
| 1960s | 608 | #877 (1969) | #974 |
| 1970s | 663 | #933 (1975) | #1,031 |
| 1980s | 698 | #996 (1980) | #1,144 |
| 1990s | 624 | #1,383 (1994) | #1,541 |
| 2000s | 637 | #1,479 (2000) | #1,973 |
| 2010s | 510 | #2,035 (2011) | #2,534 |
| 2020s | 314 | #2,236 (2024) | #2,561 |
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.
Roel in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 31,358 of them was named Roel, which outranked 80.1% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).