Roe — #8296 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Roe

The Social Security Administration has registered 899 babies named Roe between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Roe currently holds the #8296 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Roe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 197 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Roe performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Roe shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Roe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Roe 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 899 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.