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

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Peak · boys
2025 · 149 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,734
since 1926

Roan over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926girlsat peakboysat peak
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,46031#1,305149
2024#6,93216#1,351141
2023#10,3129#1,508117
2022#8,54212#1,540116
2021#6,17419#1,433126
2020#6,32518#1,353131
2019#7,02516#1,354132
2018#6,79217#1,385127
2017#8,77612#1,378128
2016#10,11310#1,78885
2015#10,14810#1,62598
2014#16,5135#1,71488
2013#14,5826#1,68588
2012#11,2579#1,89176
2011#11,1819#1,81279
2010#12,2768#1,69790
2009#13,7047#1,77485
2008#17,5045#1,482110
2007#9,00713#1,527103
2006#13,6067#1,454106
2005#13,0107#1,390107
2004#8,25913#1,44696
2003#9,67110#1,76468
2002#11,1088#2,19548
2001—#2,48939
2000—#3,64022
1999#10,3458#4,76214
1998—#4,41315
1997—#4,05916
1996—#4,02216
1995—#7,7926
1994—#8,8005
1993—#8,7005
1992—#6,1288
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1990—#6,4157
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1988—#6,4266
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1986—#5,9266
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1983—#6,2385
1982—#5,6196
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1980—#6,2505
1979—#4,8427
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1974—#4,6346
1973—#4,5056
1972—#4,9865
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1968—#4,1365
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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 1926

No state had 5 or more boys named Roan in 1926, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Roan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 46 spots since 2024 (#1,351 → #1,305)
  • 48 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,305)
  • 320 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #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
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,201 (1926)#4,201
1930s6#3,113 (1939)#3,113
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s18#3,595 (1969)#3,794
1970s30#4,505 (1973)#4,818
1980s28#5,619 (1982)#6,092
1990s92#4,022 (1996)#6,121
2000s784#1,390 (2005)#1,916
2010s991#1,354 (2019)#1,633
2020s780#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 1926

boys
#4,201
5 births · 1 in 222,101 boys

Top boys' names in 1926

  1. #1Robert61,130
  2. #2John56,108
  3. #3James53,196
  4. #4William51,922
  5. #5Charles29,521
  6. #6George25,910
  7. #7Richard25,143
  8. #8Joseph23,756
  9. #9Donald20,912
  10. #10Edward19,375
  11. #4,201Roan5
More about 1926

boys

1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 222,101 of them was named Roan, which outranked 13.1% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Roan
  1. #3,708Zelma6
  2. #3,708Zolton6
  3. #3,708Zygmund6
  4. #4,201Roan5
  5. #4,201Abby5
  6. #4,201Acey5
  7. #4,201Add5

Tied with 636 names at #4,201; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 477Jonnie#1,332 → #855
  2. ↑ 433Jorge#1,425 → #992
  3. ↑ 410Faustino#1,390 → #980
  4. ↑ 404Adelbert#1,246 → #842
  5. ↑ 381Cameron#1,164 → #783
Fallers
  1. ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
  2. ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
  3. ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
  4. ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
  5. ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124

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

See the top 100 for 1926 →