Roux — #3560 US unisex name
351 babies named Roux in U.S. Social Security records since 2011, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 80% of names given to girls today.
57% of everyone ever named Roux was born in this single decade.
47 babies were named Roux in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Roux
The Social Security Administration has registered 351 babies named Roux between 2011 and 2024, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Roux currently holds the #3560 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Roux is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 111 additional births since 2014.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Roux performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Roux shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Roux in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Roux in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 351 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Roux at a glance
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Current rank
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Roux popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2011
- Peak year (2023)
- 47
- Annual births at peak — across 14 years of records
Currently ranks #3560 among girls.
351 total births across 14 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 47 births in a single year.
Roux popularity over time — boys
111 total births recorded since 2014 (Roux as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Roux accounts for 24% of total recorded use across both genders.
Roux by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 199 births that decade — 57% of Roux's all-time total
Roux decade highlights
- Peak decade 199 births
- Runner-up 152 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Roux's strongest decade
199 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
Roux by state
Where Roux concentrates geographically — total births since 2011
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 18 | 5.1% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 7 | 2.0% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 1.4% |
18 of 351 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.1% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 2.0% of nationwide
- Texas 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2011–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.