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Roan

#1,309 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Raven

Roan has been given to 3,019 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #1,309 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 149 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Roan, 2025

1 in 22,200

Roan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Roan over time

In 2025, Roan went to 17% girls and 83% boys.

19262025

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.

Roan: meaning, origin, and history

Raven

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roan means

Roan means “raven”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,734 boys were recorded with the name Roan between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 149 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,309 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,359 in 2020 to #1,309 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,637 in 2015 to #1,309 in 2025.

In the United States, 285 girls were recorded with the name Roan between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,529 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,584 in 2020 to #4,529 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,718 in 2015 to #4,529 in 2025.

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.

How common is Roan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,200
149 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,309
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,423 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,423 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roan was born before 2014 — so the typical Roan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,723
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (991).

Is Roan 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+328
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (149)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,309
2025

Spellings of Roan

Roan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 40.1% against Roan's 0.02%.

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 Roan is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Roan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 19,308 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

216 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 6,250
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 7,143
  3. 3Colorado1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7Florida1 in 20,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 20,000

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.

Where Roan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Roan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Roan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roan around the world

Where Roan 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
    1996–2025
    #914
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #400
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2025
    #212
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2025
    #2,229
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Roan

People whose public names include Roan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Roan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Roan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Rohan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Roan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,309
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 50
Best rank ever
#1,309
2025
Peak year
2025
149 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,734
Count in 2025
149

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,529
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,055
Best rank ever
#4,529
2025
Peak year
2025
31 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Roan

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

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Names with a curve like Roan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Roan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DemariJakobiJacariKhamariYasirAshtynHadiAvionCadenceJiovanniGianlucaJet

Sibling names for Roan

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

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