Rohit
Rohit was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,898 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Rohit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rohit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rohit mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rohit is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi रोहित (rohit), Bengali রোহিত (rōhito), etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rohit?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,685, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
109 babies in 2001, the peak
Rohit peaked in 2001, when 109 boys were given it, #1,225 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,685 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,516 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,727 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,532 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,884 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,014 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,985 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,935 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,365 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,561 | 15.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 31 | #3,510 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,414 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,876 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,616 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,138 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,111 | 31.3 |
| 2006 | 74 | #1,852 | 36.0 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,959 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 81 | #1,613 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,407 | 48.1 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,299 | 53.6 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,225 | 56.1 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,378 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,728 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 62 | #1,675 | 32.4 |
| 1997 | 60 | #1,664 | 31.8 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,756 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 59 | #1,580 | 31.0 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,744 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,076 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,288 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,210 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,799 | 21.4 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,232 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,291 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,448 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,046 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,213 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,220 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,043 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,799 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,655 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,348 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,449 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,359 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,192 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,661 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,616 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,536 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,171 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,106 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,811 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,620 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rohit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rohit has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rohit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rohit, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,898 Americans ever recorded as Rohit. The median Rohit alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 6,522 people named Rohit (17 women and girls, 6,505 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,836 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 497 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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 Rohit born?
The states with the most babies named Rohit are California, New Jersey and New York, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 328 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 135 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Rohit is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rohit is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 2.5 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 Rohit with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rohit
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 Rohit and names like it
- Compare Rohit and RahulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRohit peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rohit since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Rohit: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Rohit.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rohit alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.