Roa

#7,421 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Transliteration of رُؤَى

Roa has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #7,421 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.

Babies named Roa, 2025

1 in 221,000

Roa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Roa over time

In 2025, Roa went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20172025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Roa: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of رُؤَى

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roa means

Roa is a transliteration of رُؤَى.

Origin, language, and formation

Roa is used in English.

Roa comes through Spanish Roa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include رُؤَى.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Roa between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,421 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,191 in 2020 to #7,421 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Roa between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,694 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Roa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 107,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,421; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Roa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roa was born before 2022 — so the typical Roa is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 80.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 80.6% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Roa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +1,427; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +5,770; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 51.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,421; 2025

Where Roa is used

Across 1910–2025, Roa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Roa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roa around the world

Where Roa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2011–2021
#5,581
in 2021
France
2015–2025
#7,283
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Roa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,421
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 5,770
Best rank ever: #7,421; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 15 that year
First recorded: 2017
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: 15

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,694; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 7 that year
First recorded: 2023
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 12
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Roa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Roaa Roan Roary Roane Roah Roann Roanne Roanna Roarie Debroa

Sibling names for Roa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Kale Aaden Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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