Roe
Roe is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,246 among girls’ names and #9,526 among boys’, #10,203 among all names counting both); 1,119 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roe?
#9,526 among boys’ names, 2025
Roe entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,526 in 2025.
32 babies in 2023, the peak
Roe peaked in 2023, when 32 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,439 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,246 | 8 | #9,526 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,443 | 9 | #8,832 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,615 | 14 | #6,439 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,428 | 12 | #7,155 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,909 | 10 | #8,040 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #10,378 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,487 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,689 | 15 | #5,980 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,551 | 10 | #8,011 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,967 | 8 | #9,494 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,130 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #11,961 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,959 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,663 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,329 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,837 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,725 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 8 | #3,237 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,322 | 11 | #2,674 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 11 | #2,635 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,821 | 6 | #3,860 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,837 | 9 | #2,989 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,754 | 5 | #4,364 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,995 | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,450 | 10 | #2,705 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 16 | #2,020 | |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,057 | 9 | #2,835 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,347 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,107 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,891 | 11 | #2,430 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,549 | 10 | #2,583 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,685 | 13 | #2,233 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,378 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,110 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 14 | #1,965 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 11 | #2,381 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,502 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 12 | #2,182 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 11 | #2,293 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 13 | #2,036 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,869 | 10 | #2,452 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,860 | |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,647 | 11 | #2,278 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 15 | #1,902 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,533 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 21 | #1,535 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 18 | #1,770 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 19 | #1,683 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 9 | #2,971 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 10 | #2,731 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 9 | #3,029 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 14 | #2,283 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 15 | #2,169 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,362 | 14 | #2,299 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,746 | 12 | #2,601 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 19 | #1,859 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 17 | #2,016 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 20 | #1,815 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 18 | #1,950 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 21 | #1,680 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 23 | #1,587 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 23 | #1,522 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 25 | #1,410 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 19 | #1,648 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 16 | #1,593 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 11 | #1,783 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 9 | #1,856 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 9 | #1,271 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 7 | #1,252 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 7 | #1,195 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 6 | #1,207 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 6 | #1,180 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 7 | #995 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 7 | #1,144 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 6 | #1,036 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 6 | #1,079 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 11 | #670 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 7 | #935 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 7 | #937 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 6 | #939 | |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,499 | 5 | #1,129 |
| 1889 | under 5 | 5 | #1,086 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 5 | #1,154 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 5 | #1,042 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 6 | #920 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 5 | #1,014 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 9 | #647 |
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 Roe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,119 Americans recorded as Roe, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roe, and how old are they?
An estimated 430 Americans named Roe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 5 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Roe (314 women and girls, 396 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 362 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 462,938 babies since 1880, Roe is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 3,752 babies (<1%), 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 Roe
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 Roe and names like it
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