Monroe — #1278 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Monroe

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,933 babies named Monroe between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Monroe currently holds the #1278 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 375 babies received it in a single year. Monroe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,603 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Monroe performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,194 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Monroe shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,308 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Monroe in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Monroe in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,933 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.