Roan — #1347 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Roan

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,585 babies named Roan between 1926 and 2024, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Roan currently holds the #1347 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 141 babies received it in a single year. Roan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 254 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Roan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 991 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Roan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 279 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Roan in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Roan 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 2,585 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.