Roel

#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births

Peak · boys
1969 · 76 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,711
since 1926

Roel over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Roel has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201985peak #877, 1969boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,48054
2024#2,23664
2023#2,31560
2022#2,67549
2021#2,97241
2020#2,68946
2019#3,14337
2018#2,44553
2017#2,53250
2016#3,11137
2015#2,91940
2014#2,15463
2013#2,49249
2012#2,32655
2011#2,03566
2010#2,18760
2009#2,38154
2008#2,26558
2007#2,05167
2006#2,15060
2005#2,11458
2004#1,88065
2003#1,76468
2002#1,77265
2001#1,87159
2000#1,47983
1999#1,50375
1998#1,58566
1997#1,69358
1996#1,72554
1995#1,50863
1994#1,38371
1993#1,42067
1992#1,52558
1991#1,65250
1990#1,42062
1989#1,36265
1988#1,27065
1987#1,17567
1986#1,19963
1985#1,29055
1984#1,02875
1983#1,01676
1982#1,03976
1981#1,06274
1980#99682
1979#1,19358
1978#1,05169
1977#1,11361
1976#1,04264
1975#93377
1974#94874
1973#96270
1972#1,08356
1971#98568
1970#1,00066
1969#87776
1968#1,01753
1967#92561
1966#1,00752
1965#91266
1964#91469
1963#1,19542
1962#93965
1961#1,04256
1960#91668
1959#1,03455
1958#1,16344
1957#1,19942
1956#1,03253
1955#1,27335
1954#1,11245
1953#1,18939
1952#1,16640
1951#1,55323
1950#1,25633
1949#1,32230
1948#1,51923
1947#1,51924
1946#1,64219
1945#1,85214
1944#1,81015
1943#1,98614
1942#2,04213
1941#2,6568
1940#1,39723
1939
1938#2,8687
1937#3,1756
1936#2,4529
1935#2,7198
1934#2,7428
1933#3,6425
1932#3,7765
1931#3,3906
1930#4,0015
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First appearance
1926

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.

See more about Roel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1926
  • Peaked 1969 at #877 (76 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 47 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1969–1971
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,277
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 14.8% of all boys named Roel (698) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s6#3,708 (1926)#3,708
1930s59#2,452 (1936)#3,196
1940s183#1,322 (1949)#1,775
1950s409#1,032 (1956)#1,198
1960s608#877 (1969)#974
1970s663#933 (1975)#1,031
1980s698#996 (1980)#1,144
1990s624#1,383 (1994)#1,541
2000s637#1,479 (2000)#1,973
2010s510#2,035 (2011)#2,534
2020s314#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 1985

boys
#1,290
55 births · 1 in 33,604 boys

Top boys' names in 1985

  1. #1Michael64,934
  2. #2Christopher59,609
  3. #3Matthew47,075
  4. #4Joshua42,194
  5. #5Daniel38,559
  6. #6David38,522
  7. #7James35,862
  8. #8Robert32,094
  9. #9John31,502
  10. #10Joseph30,222
  11. #1,290Roel55
More about 1985

boys

1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 33,604 of them was named Roel, which outranked 83.0% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Roel
  1. #1,282Margarito56
  2. #1,282Samual56
  3. #1,282Stefano56
  4. #1,290Roel55
  5. #1,290Antonia55
  6. #1,290Bradlee55
  7. #1,290Calen55
  8. #1,304Aidan54
  9. #1,304Brennen54
  10. #1,304Camden54

Tied with 13 names at #1,290; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1984
Risers
  1. 2,425Jaymes#3,270#845
  2. 977Trace#1,933#956
  3. 933Durrell#1,656#723
  4. 793Durell#1,399#606
  5. 562Brandyn#1,444#882
Fallers
  1. 420Anwar#951#1,371
  2. 345Zebulon#976#1,321
  3. 303Tavares#925#1,228
  4. 250Alonso#931#1,181
  5. 228Abdul#1,000#1,228

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1985