Roey
#13,490 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roey has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #13,490 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Roey, 2025
1 in 663,000
Roey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Roey over time
In 2025, Roey went to 50% girls and 50% 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 Roey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,490
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roey 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roey was born before 2011 — so the typical Roey is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 104
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Roey 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
- −5,843
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,765
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +145
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.5%
- Peak was 2024 (11)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.1% average annual change
Spellings of Roey
Roey is not the most common spelling — Joe is, with 10.8% against Roey'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.
Roey around the world
Where Roey 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.
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Roey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Roey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.