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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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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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 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#403 · 1 in 2,273
- Washington#655 · 1 in 5,191
- New York#1,093 · 1 in 10,954
- California#1,156 · 1 in 16,269
- Florida#1,443 · 1 in 17,226
Best ever in a state: #403 in New Mexico, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #403 | 5 | 1 in 2,273 |
| Washington | #655 | 7 | 1 in 5,191 |
| New York | #1,093 | 10 | 1 in 10,954 |
| California | #1,156 | 16 | 1 in 16,269 |
| Florida | #1,443 | 6 | 1 in 17,226 |
| Texas | #1,579 | 8 | 1 in 23,291 |
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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 Roan
- 46 spots since 2024 (#1,351 → #1,305)
- 48 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,305)
- 320 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #1,305)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 2025 at #1,305 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,464 boys born in 2025 were named Roan (0.01%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Roan (991) were born in this decade
- 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.
Roan in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 271,601 of them was named Roan, which outranked 32.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,420Zykiria8
- #12,420Zylah8
- #12,420Zymirah8
- #13,606Roan7
- #13,606Aalaya7
- #13,606Aamirah7
- #13,606Aamna7
- #15,152Aaisha6
- #15,152Aalivia6
- #15,152Aaliyan6
Tied with 1,545 names at #13,606; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 19,389 of them was named Roan, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,447Rowdy107
- #1,447Tobin107
- #1,447Tristyn107
- #1,454Roan106
- #1,454Arya106
- #1,454Ayush106
- #1,454Jacari106
- #1,460Bodhi105
- #1,460Cy105
- #1,460Desean105
Tied with 5 names at #1,454; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.