Boys' name · since 2023
Rood
13 babies named Rood in U.S. Social Security records since 2023, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #32,293 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,666 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rood currently ranks #9666 among boys' names in America, with 13 babies recorded since 2023.
Social Security Administration records show Rood recorded 13 times among boys since 2023, holding rank #9666 nationally today, ahead of 31% of boys, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2023 to 2025.
- #32,293 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #9,666 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 13 born since 2023
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rood ranks #32,293 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,666 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 13 born since 2023, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,293 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,666 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rood's 13 recorded births place it above 28.77% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Rood compares
13 5th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Rood's all-time total is 96% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Rood | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 13 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 34 | 22,252 |
Rood's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Rood's full recorded timeline at 2025, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2023, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Rood popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Rood by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Rood's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Rood births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (100% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2023–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rood draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.