Roye
Roye was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 205 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,307, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1943, the peak
Roye peaked in 1943, when 13 babies were given it (7 boys, #3,191 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,307 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,478 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,412 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,256 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,655 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,906 | 7 | #3,256 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,882 | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,675 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,559 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,126 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | #4,000 | 5 | #3,831 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,607 | 7 | #3,191 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,251 | 5 | #3,959 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,427 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,100 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #3,208 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,576 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,457 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,693 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 8 | #3,332 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,114 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,845 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 9 | #3,131 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,808 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,199 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,650 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,470 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,403 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 7 | #2,859 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,728 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Roye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 205 Americans recorded as Roye, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roye, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Roye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 230 people named Roye (61 women and girls, 169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 462,938 babies since 1880, Roye is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,752 babies recorded by SSA was a Roye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Roye and names like it
- Compare Roye and RoyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sRoye peaked in 1943.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Roye.
- Names starting with RMost given first.