Meaning not yet researched.
Rowdy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 250 in 2025. Its best rank was #926 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #926 in 2024; #941 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Rowdy in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#941 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #926.
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Rowdy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 250 boys in 2025. Peak: #926 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 251 (2024).
In 2025, 250 US boys were named Rowdy, making it the 941st most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #926 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 251 boys named Rowdy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #926, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 251. For comparison, it was #1,333 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rowdy in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 22 babies. In all, 5,055 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,344 babies named Rowdy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,787 US boys were named Rowdy; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 251. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,832 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rowdy ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #254 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rowdey, Rowdie and Rowdi 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rowdey (20), Rowdie (10), Rowdi (10).
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 Rowdy 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 13 | #254 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #325 | — |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #374 | #473 |
| Alabama | 14 | #396 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #543 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #589 | #515 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #628 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #670 | #880 |
| Utah | 6 | #685 | #548 |
| Texas | 41 | #697 | #999 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #752 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #769 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #795 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #841 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #867 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #946 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #979 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,012 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,246 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,564 | #1,610 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,080 | 250 | #941 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,940 | 251 | #926 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,977 | 219 | #1,006 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,551 | 205 | #1,070 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,995 | 192 | #1,094 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,055 | 167 | #1,159 |
| 2019 | — | — | 119 | #1,466 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,665 | 135 | #1,339 |
| 2017 | — | — | 120 | #1,437 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,342 | 129 | #1,379 |
| 2015 | — | — | 133 | #1,333 |
| 2014 | — | — | 138 | #1,291 |
| 2013 | — | — | 122 | #1,384 |
| 2012 | — | — | 108 | #1,497 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,341 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,586 |
| 2009 | — | — | 133 | #1,312 |
| 2008 | — | — | 140 | #1,250 |
| 2007 | — | — | 106 | #1,505 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,447 | 107 | #1,451 |
| 2005 | — | — | 79 | #1,706 |
| 2004 | — | — | 83 | #1,591 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,837 |
| 2002 | — | — | 68 | #1,721 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,675 |
| 2000 | — | — | 72 | #1,637 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,896 |
| 1998 | — | — | 70 | #1,545 |
| 1997 | — | — | 60 | #1,668 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,898 |
| 1995 | — | — | 51 | #1,750 |
| 1994 | — | — | 65 | #1,475 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,536 |
| 1992 | — | — | 45 | #1,836 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,911 |
| 1990 | — | — | 44 | #1,807 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,023 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,877 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,754 |
| 1986 | — | — | 51 | #1,400 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,474 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,501 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #2,006 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,982 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,323 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,953 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,561 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,115 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,054 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,226 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,989 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,967 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,456 |
| 1972 | — | — | 26 | #1,759 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,591 |
| 1970 | — | — | 36 | #1,414 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,299 |
| 1968 | — | — | 36 | #1,278 |
| 1967 | — | — | 27 | #1,500 |
| 1966 | — | — | 29 | #1,444 |
| 1965 | — | — | 40 | #1,219 |
| 1964 | — | — | 39 | #1,258 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,272 |
| 1962 | — | — | 45 | #1,164 |
| 1961 | — | — | 29 | #1,515 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,574 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,751 |
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).