Rowdy
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #940 for boys in 2025, 250 births
Given to boys 98.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 251 births
- Debut · boys
- 22 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,980since 1959
Rowdy over time
Rank among boys' names. Rowdy has never cracked the top 900 here.
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 | #6,838 | 16 | #940 | 250 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #922 | 251 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #1,003 | 219 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #1,069 | 205 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,092 | 192 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,158 | 167 |
| 2019 | — | #1,459 | 119 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,335 | 135 |
| 2017 | — | #1,433 | 120 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,373 | 129 |
| 2015 | — | #1,327 | 133 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,285 | 138 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,490 | 108 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,331 | 127 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,574 | 100 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,309 | 133 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,240 | 140 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,496 | 106 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,447 | 107 |
| 2005 | — | #1,691 | 79 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,582 | 83 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,815 | 65 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,708 | 68 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,659 | 70 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,629 | 72 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,879 | 52 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,536 | 70 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,657 | 60 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,872 | 48 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,736 | 51 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,471 | 65 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,524 | 60 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,820 | 45 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,895 | 41 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,780 | 44 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,993 | 36 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,849 | 36 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,734 | 38 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,385 | 51 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,452 | 46 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,481 | 42 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,929 | 28 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,270 | 22 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,910 | 29 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,532 | 38 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,008 | 24 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,177 | 21 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,948 | 24 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,934 | 23 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,435 | 35 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,721 | 26 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,560 | 31 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,396 | 36 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,280 | 38 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,258 | 36 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,476 | 27 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,428 | 29 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,206 | 40 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,236 | 39 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,255 | 38 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,147 | 45 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,496 | 29 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,552 | 27 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,709 | 22 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rowdy! It came in at #1,709, and was given to 22 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1978, when fewer than 25 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rowdy
- 18 spots since 2024 (#922 → #940)
- 218 spots since 2020 (#1,158 → #940)
- 387 spots since 2015 (#1,327 → #940)
- Biggest jump: 81 spots in 2024 (#1,003 → #922)
- Biggest drop: 18 spots in 2025 (#922 → #940)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2024 at #922 (251 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,832 boys born in 2025 were named Rowdy (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #922 in 2024, was only 1 in 6,864 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.8% of all boys named Rowdy (1,284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 22 | #1,709 (1959) | #1,709 |
| 1960s | 348 | #1,147 (1962) | #1,333 |
| 1970s | 281 | #1,396 (1970) | #1,778 |
| 1980s | 355 | #1,385 (1986) | #1,796 |
| 1990s | 536 | #1,471 (1994) | #1,717 |
| 2000s | 923 | #1,240 (2008) | #1,558 |
| 2010s | 1,231 | #1,285 (2014) | #1,398 |
| 2020s | 1,284 | #922 (2024) | #1,031 |
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.
Rowdy in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Rowdy, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,711 of them was named Rowdy, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,366Ender130
- #1,366Jarrett130
- #1,366Truett130
- #1,373Rowdy129
- #1,373Carmine129
- #1,373Haven129
- #1,373Humberto129
- #1,382Benaiah128
- #1,382Hagen128
- #1,382Mikhail128
Tied with 8 names at #1,373; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.