Roe
#9,526 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roe has been given to 1,119 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #9,526 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.
Babies named Roe, 2025
1 in 414,000
Roe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Roe over time
In 2025, Roe went to 62% girls and 38% boys.
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.
How common is Roe?
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
- #9,526
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roe 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 Roe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roe was born before 1931 — so the typical Roe is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 17.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 237
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 17.2% of all recorded uses (156).
Is Roe 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
- −694
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +852
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 32.0%
- Peak was 1916 (25)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.8% average annual change
Where Roe is used
Across 1910–2025, Roe was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 737,056 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 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. Roe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Roe around the world
Where Roe 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 & Wales2018–2025#3,684in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Roe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Roe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.