Rohan
Rohan was given to 306 boys in 2025, #812 among boys’ names; 12,151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,000 Americans named Rohan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rohan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rohan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rohan is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a male given name from Sanskrit, of mainly Indian usage.”
Habitational surname from Rohan in Morbihan, Brittany. Also a variant of Rowan and Ruane.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rohan?
#812 among boys’ names, 2025
Rohan fell from #666 in 2015 to #812 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.18 per 1,000.
522 babies in 2004, the peak
Rohan peaked in 2004, when 522 boys were given it, #480 among boys’ names. The 306 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 306 | #812 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 291 | #841 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 297 | #825 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 306 | #815 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 306 | #801 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 289 | #805 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 315 | #757 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 343 | #710 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 373 | #678 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 328 | #743 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 387 | #666 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 414 | #634 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 423 | #601 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 417 | #605 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 435 | #577 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 478 | #536 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 500 | #534 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 503 | #531 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 511 | #515 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 492 | #523 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 493 | #503 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 522 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 486 | #504 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 437 | #520 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 305 | #624 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 303 | #621 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 289 | #625 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 195 | #785 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 174 | #832 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 156 | #879 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 136 | #952 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,267 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,317 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,314 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rohan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rohan has been given almost only to boys: 49 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rohan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rohan, and how old are they?
12,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,151 Americans ever recorded as Rohan. The median Rohan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 14,448 people named Rohan (109 women and girls, 14,339 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,380 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rohan born?
The states with the most babies named Rohan are California, Texas and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #587 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 30 | #873 | 0.7× |
| New York | 27 | #579 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #464 | 2.6× |
| Florida | 17 | #878 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 11 | #632 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | #847 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 9 | #919 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #548 | 1.7× |
| Arizona | 9 | #708 | 0.5× |
Where Rohan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rohan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rohan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,079 babies since 1880, Rohan is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 306 of their 2,785 babies (11%), again the third 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 Rohan
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 Rohan and names like it
- Compare Rohan and RonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRohan peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rohan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rohan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Rohan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rohan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.