Roark
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1958 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 539since 1948
Roark over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Roark has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
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| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
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| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
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| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #2,370 | 12 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,875 | 8 |
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| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,453 | 10 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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First appearance
1948
The first year at least five boys were named Roark! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Roark is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Roark in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Roark
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 484 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #6,143)
- 1,445 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #6,143)
- 636 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1958 at #2,370 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 5 yrs later
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 64,796
- Highest: 1 in 64,796 boys born in 2021 were named Roark (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,370 in 1958, was only 1 in 176,867 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 32.5% of all boys named Roark (175) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 15 | #2,453 (1949) | #3,061 |
| 1950s | 72 | #2,370 (1958) | #3,001 |
| 1960s | 52 | #2,780 (1965) | #3,219 |
| 1970s | 12 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,336 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 33 | #6,314 (1998) | #7,892 |
| 2000s | 80 | #6,622 (2007) | #8,121 |
| 2010s | 175 | #4,533 (2012) | #5,197 |
| 2020s | 100 | #3,912 (2021) | #5,772 |
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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