Meaning not yet researched.
Roan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,309 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 83% of babies named Roan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,309 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Roan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,309 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 149 (2025).
In 2025, 149 US boys were named Roan, making it the 1,309th most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #1,353 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 141 boys named Roan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,309, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #1,637 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Roan, making it the 4,530th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,662 places from #7,192 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 16 girls named Roan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,530, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #10,723 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roan in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 5 babies. In all, 3,019 US babies have been given the name, 9.4% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,093 babies named Roan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,252 US boys were named Roan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 149. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,464 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Roan ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #612 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rohan (12,151 babies since 1880), Ron (36,432 babies since 1880) and Roen (1,121 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roanne and Ruann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Roanne (396), Ruann (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Roan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 9 | #612 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #835 | #1,296 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #910 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,116 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,157 | #897 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,197 | #1,349 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,229 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,447 | #968 |
| California | 12 | #1,490 | #1,736 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,591 | #1,648 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,877 | #2,338 |
| New York | 5 | #1,986 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,530 | 149 | #1,309 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,192 | 141 | #1,353 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,003 | 117 | #1,515 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,948 | 116 | #1,549 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,365 | 126 | #1,437 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,588 | 131 | #1,359 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,282 | 132 | #1,364 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,045 | 127 | #1,393 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,241 | 128 | #1,382 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,697 | 85 | #1,797 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,723 | 98 | #1,637 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,669 | 88 | #1,725 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,140 | 88 | #1,692 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,046 | 76 | #1,905 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,961 | 79 | #1,822 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,215 | 90 | #1,710 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,908 | 85 | #1,786 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,852 | 110 | #1,490 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,434 | 103 | #1,534 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,808 | 106 | #1,458 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,186 | 107 | #1,399 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,618 | 96 | #1,454 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,274 | 68 | #1,775 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,953 | 48 | #2,215 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,517 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,730 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,147 | 14 | #4,976 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,599 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,198 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,153 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,657 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,948 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,871 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,570 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,013 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,068 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,557 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,094 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,236 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,073 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,250 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,696 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,109 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,956 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,586 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,860 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,614 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,980 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,419 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,713 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).