Rowdy
Rowdy was given to 250 boys in 2025, #941 among boys’ names; 5,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,880 Americans named Rowdy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rowdy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rowdy?
#941 among boys’ names, 2025
Rowdy rose from #1,333 in 2015 to #941 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.15 per 1,000.
266 babies in 2025, the peak
Rowdy peaked in 2025, when 266 babies were given it (250 boys, #941 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 251 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 250 | #941 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 251 | #926 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 219 | #1,006 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 205 | #1,070 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,094 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,466 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,339 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,437 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,291 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,384 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,497 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,341 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,586 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,250 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,451 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,703 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 83 | #1,588 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,834 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 68 | #1,718 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,671 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 72 | #1,633 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,893 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,542 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 60 | #1,665 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,745 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 65 | #1,470 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 60 | #1,531 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,018 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 51 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,473 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,988 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 36 | #1,413 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 38 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,278 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 29 | #1,443 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,219 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,257 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,271 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,163 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 29 | #1,514 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,573 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,750 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rowdy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,055 Americans recorded as Rowdy, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls and 250 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rowdy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rowdy, and how old are they?
4,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,055 Americans ever recorded as Rowdy. The median Rowdy alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,183 people named Rowdy (55 women and girls, 3,128 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 155 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 422 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 648 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,230 |
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 Rowdy born?
The states with the most babies named Rowdy are Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 41 | #697 | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 14 | #396 | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #374 | 6.6× |
| Mississippi | 13 | #254 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #628 | 0.5× |
| California | 11 | #1,564 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | #841 | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | #589 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,246 | 0.2× |
| Idaho | 8 | #325 | 1.3× |
Where Rowdy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rowdy is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1959 it was given 6.6 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 Rowdy 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 Rowdy
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 Rowdy and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rowdy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rowdy alive today were born 2013-2025.
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