Roary
Roary was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 69 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,678, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2021, the peak
Roary peaked in 2021, when 10 babies were given it (5 boys, #13,678 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,766 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,187 | 5 | #13,678 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,685 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,503 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,800 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,641 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #14,171 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,973 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,595 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,355 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,091 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,145 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Roary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 69 Americans recorded as Roary, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roary, and how old are they?
An estimated 68 Americans named Roary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 164 people named Roary (37 women and girls, 127 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 461,186 babies since 1880, Roary is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 3,702 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Roary
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 Roary and names like it
- Compare Roary and RoyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRoary peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Roary.
- Names starting with RMost given first.