Roarke
#9,523 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roarke has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #9,523 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Roarke, 2025
1 in 414,000
Roarke 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Roarke?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,523
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roarke 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roarke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roarkes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roarke was born before 2011 — so the typical Roarke is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 369
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (131).
Is Roarke 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
- −693
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,610
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,924
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.62×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.4%
- Peak was 2009 (18)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Roarke
Roarke is not the most common spelling — Clarke is, with 71.6% against Roarke's 6.8%.
Roarke around the world
Where Roarke 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 & Wales1998–2012#4,805in 2012
- Ireland2000–2005#518in 2005
- Canada2011–2011#2,366in 2011
- South Australia1999–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Roarke by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Roarke
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roarke
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.