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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Rowdy is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#291 · 1 in 1,472
- Texas#799 · 1 in 8,728
Best ever in a state: #168 in South Dakota, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #291 | 14 | 1 in 1,472 |
| Texas | #799 | 20 | 1 in 8,728 |
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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 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 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 28,552 of them was named Rowdy, which outranked 86.3% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,694Oskar69
- #1,694Rudolph69
- #1,694Slater69
- #1,708Rowdy68
- #1,708Aries68
- #1,708Elan68
- #1,708Finnegan68
- #1,723Brantley67
- #1,723Chayse67
- #1,723Cleveland67
Tied with 14 names at #1,708; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.