Girls' name · since 2018
Rous
40 babies named Rous in U.S. Social Security records since 2018, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #37,656 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,854 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rous currently ranks #7854 among girls' names in America, with 40 babies recorded since 2018.
Rous has 40 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #7854 as of the latest data, more common than 55% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #37,656 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #7,854 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 40 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rous ranks #37,656 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,854 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 40 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #37,656 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,854 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rous's 40 recorded births place it above 47.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Rous compares
40 13th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls 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
Rous's all-time total is 89% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Rous | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 40 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Rous's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Rous's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 73% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 27%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Rous popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Rous by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (35 births, 88% of the file).
2020s was Rous's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 88% of all-time use.
Rous births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 35 births (88% 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, 2018–2025 (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 Rous 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.