Meaning not yet researched.
Roel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #879 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #879 in 1969; #2,510 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Roel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,510 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #879.
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Roel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #879 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 83 (2000).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Roel, making it the 2,510th most common boys’ name of the year, down 253 places from #2,257 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 64 boys named Roel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #879, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 83, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,949 in 2015 and #1,269 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roel in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 6 babies. In all, 4,711 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 698 babies named Roel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 491 US boys were named Roel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Roel ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #824 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Royal (24,394 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Roel 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #824 | #854 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,510 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,257 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,337 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,708 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #3,016 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,721 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,181 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,466 |
| 2017 | — | — | 50 | #2,560 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,150 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,949 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,173 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,518 |
| 2012 | — | — | 55 | #2,349 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,049 |
| 2010 | — | — | 60 | #2,204 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,396 |
| 2008 | — | — | 58 | #2,285 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,064 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,168 |
| 2005 | — | — | 58 | #2,124 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,904 |
| 2003 | — | — | 68 | #1,776 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,785 |
| 2001 | — | — | 59 | #1,888 |
| 2000 | — | — | 83 | #1,484 |
| 1999 | — | — | 75 | #1,514 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,598 |
| 1997 | — | — | 58 | #1,703 |
| 1996 | — | — | 54 | #1,734 |
| 1995 | — | — | 63 | #1,524 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,396 |
| 1993 | — | — | 67 | #1,427 |
| 1992 | — | — | 58 | #1,542 |
| 1991 | — | — | 50 | #1,669 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,432 |
| 1989 | — | — | 65 | #1,369 |
| 1988 | — | — | 65 | #1,282 |
| 1987 | — | — | 67 | #1,187 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,213 |
| 1985 | — | — | 55 | #1,301 |
| 1984 | — | — | 75 | #1,030 |
| 1983 | — | — | 76 | #1,020 |
| 1982 | — | — | 76 | #1,045 |
| 1981 | — | — | 74 | #1,066 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #1,002 |
| 1979 | — | — | 58 | #1,205 |
| 1978 | — | — | 69 | #1,055 |
| 1977 | — | — | 61 | #1,119 |
| 1976 | — | — | 64 | #1,046 |
| 1975 | — | — | 77 | #937 |
| 1974 | — | — | 74 | #951 |
| 1973 | — | — | 70 | #969 |
| 1972 | — | — | 56 | #1,094 |
| 1971 | — | — | 68 | #988 |
| 1970 | — | — | 66 | #1,003 |
| 1969 | — | — | 76 | #879 |
| 1968 | — | — | 53 | #1,023 |
| 1967 | — | — | 61 | #930 |
| 1966 | — | — | 52 | #1,013 |
| 1965 | — | — | 66 | #917 |
| 1964 | — | — | 69 | #920 |
| 1963 | — | — | 42 | #1,213 |
| 1962 | — | — | 65 | #945 |
| 1961 | — | — | 56 | #1,050 |
| 1960 | — | — | 68 | #922 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,044 |
| 1958 | — | — | 44 | #1,167 |
| 1957 | — | — | 42 | #1,212 |
| 1956 | — | — | 53 | #1,042 |
| 1955 | — | — | 35 | #1,293 |
| 1954 | — | — | 45 | #1,120 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,211 |
| 1952 | — | — | 40 | #1,181 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1950 | — | — | 33 | #1,269 |
| 1949 | — | — | 30 | #1,342 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,553 |
| 1947 | — | — | 24 | #1,547 |
| 1946 | — | — | 19 | #1,682 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,916 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,872 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,057 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,126 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,841 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,427 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,117 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,465 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,588 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,902 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,916 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,191 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,681 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,455 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,103 |
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).