Roam
#8,772 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roam has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #8,772 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Roam, 2025
1 in 368,000
Roam over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Roam?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,772
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roam sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roam was born before 2023 — so the typical Roam is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 76.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 64
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 76.6% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Roam 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
- −3,756
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,852
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.80×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.0%
- Peak was 2024 (20)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 63.6% average annual change
Spellings of Roam
Roam is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 25.3% against Roam's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Roam is used
Across 1910–2025, Roam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Roam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Roam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Roam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.