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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1926, 6 boys in 1939 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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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First appearance
1926
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.
Where Roan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Colorado#571 · 1 in 2,983
- Pennsylvania#792 · 1 in 5,226
- Minnesota#807 · 1 in 4,900
- North Carolina#1,028 · 1 in 7,353
- Tennessee#1,040 · 1 in 7,354
Best ever in a state: #403 in New Mexico, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #571 | 9 | 1 in 2,983 |
| Pennsylvania | #792 | 10 | 1 in 5,226 |
| Minnesota | #807 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,353 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 7 | 1 in 7,174 |
| Michigan | #1,113 | 5 | 1 in 8,039 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| California | #1,438 | 12 | 1 in 14,623 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| Texas | #1,760 | 9 | 1 in 19,450 |
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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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 48 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,305)
Rise & fade · boys
99 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 2025 at #1,305 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,464
- Highest: 1 in 11,464 boys born in 2025 were named Roan (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 36.2% of all boys named Roan (991) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- 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.
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