Roanna
Roanna was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 440 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roanna is “a female given name.”
Blend of Rose + Anna. Compare Joanna and Rosanna (possibly also inspired by Roxana).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,249, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1951, the peak
Roanna peaked in 1951, when 17 girls were given it, #2,552 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #19,249 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,666 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,369 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,310 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,846 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,088 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,209 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,932 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,555 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,016 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | #8,904 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,746 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,032 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,063 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,042 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,155 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,323 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,912 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,205 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,241 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,412 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,041 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,317 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,426 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,172 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,000 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,505 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,127 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,839 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,595 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,957 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,104 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,460 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,133 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,146 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,107 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,736 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,214 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,068 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,236 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,552 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,939 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,140 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,864 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,954 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,443 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,235 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,948 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,899 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,252 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,124 | 5.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,232 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,192 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 360 Americans named Roanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 46 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 487 people named Roanna (487 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,046 babies since 1880, Roanna is the fifth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 58 babies recorded by SSA was a Roanna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Roanna
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 Roanna and names like it
- Compare Roanna and RonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRoanna peaked in 1951.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Roanna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Roanna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.