Roan
Roan is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 149 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,529 among girls’ names and #1,309 among boys’, #2,374 among all names counting both); 3,019 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,970 Americans named Roan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roan?
#1,309 among boys’ names, 2025
Roan rose from #1,637 in 2015 to #1,309 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 51.1 to 87.2 per million.
180 babies in 2025, the peak
Roan peaked in 2025, when 180 babies were given it (149 boys, #1,309 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 141 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,309 | 87.2 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,353 | 81.8 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,515 | 68.4 |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,549 | 66.4 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,437 | 72.0 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,359 | 75.9 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,364 | 73.6 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,393 | 69.9 |
| 2017 | 128 | #1,382 | 69.2 |
| 2016 | 85 | #1,797 | 44.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #1,637 | 51.1 |
| 2014 | 88 | #1,725 | 45.8 |
| 2013 | 88 | #1,691 | 46.5 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,904 | 40.1 |
| 2011 | 79 | #1,821 | 41.6 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,710 | 46.9 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,785 | 42.9 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,490 | 53.9 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,534 | 49.6 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,458 | 51.6 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,398 | 53.6 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,452 | 48.4 |
| 2003 | 68 | #1,772 | 34.4 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,211 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,512 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,724 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,970 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,595 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,193 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,147 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,650 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,942 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,865 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,563 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,006 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,061 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,551 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,090 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,234 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,071 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,248 | 4.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,694 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,107 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,954 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,584 | 3.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,859 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,612 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,979 | 2.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,418 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,711 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,019 Americans recorded as Roan, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roan, and how old are they?
2,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,019 Americans ever recorded as Roan. The median Roan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,448 people named Roan (308 women and girls, 2,140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 67 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Roan born?
The states with the most babies named Roan are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,877 | 0.6× |
| California | 12 | #1,490 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #835 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 9 | #612 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,591 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,116 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,197 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #1,986 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,157 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,447 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Roan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,079 babies since 1880, Roan is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 180 of their 2,785 babies (6.5%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Roan and names like it
- Compare Roan and RonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRoan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Roan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Roan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.