Roey
Roey is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,770 among girls’ names and #13,490 among boys’, #16,925 among all names counting both); 109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roey?
#13,490 among boys’ names, 2025
Roey rose from #13,635 in 2015 to #13,490 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
11 babies in 2024, the peak
Roey peaked in 2024, when 11 boys were given it, #7,647 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,490 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,647 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,026 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,847 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,725 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,853 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,635 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,650 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,962 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,836 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,783 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,978 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,957 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,939 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,287 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,960 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,484 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 109 Americans recorded as Roey, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roey, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Roey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 194 people named Roey (25 women and girls, 169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 462,940 babies since 1880, Roey is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 3,757 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Roey
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 Roey and names like it
- Compare Roey and RoyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRoey peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Roey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Roey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.