Rolen
Rolen was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,456 among boys’ names; 225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rolen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rolen?
#10,456 among boys’ names, 2025
Rolen fell from #7,918 in 2015 to #10,456 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.1 per million.
12 babies in 2005, the peak
Rolen peaked in 2005, when 12 boys were given it, #6,536 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,456 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,191 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,761 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,843 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,726 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,842 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,512 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,918 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,652 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,496 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,963 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,848 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,598 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,773 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,388 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,536 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,752 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,363 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,934 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,251 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,930 | 3.1 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,703 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,943 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,465 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,493 | 6.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,712 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,716 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,760 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,793 | 6.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,245 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,293 | 5.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,742 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rolen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rolen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rolen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rolen, and how old are they?
An estimated 157 Americans named Rolen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Rolen (16 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,983 babies since 1880, Rolen is the sixth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 42 babies (17%), the third 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.
More about Rolen and names like it
- Compare Rolen and RollinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Rolen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rolen alive today were born 2013-2025.
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