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Rogers

#11,723 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rogers has been given to 7,056 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #11,723 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1950, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Rogers, 2025

1 in 553,000

Rogers over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rogers: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rogers means

Rogers is a given name.

The naming story behind Rogers

Wikidata records Rogers as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q29533562, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,035 boys were recorded with the name Rogers between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1950; its best national rank was #484 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,648 in 2020 to #11,723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,397 in 2015 to #11,723 in 2025.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Rogers between 1925 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,814 in 1939.

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 Rogers?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,723
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rogers 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rogers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rogerss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rogers was born before 1944 — so the typical Rogers is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,723
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1940s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (1,271).

Is Rogers 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,925
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,326
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.7%
Peak was 1950 (164)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#484
1902

Spellings of Rogers

Rogers is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 91.0% against Rogers's 0.13%.

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 Rogers is used

Across 1910–2025, Rogers was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,125 boys, against 1 in 26,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

032 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,125
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,762
  3. 3Georgia1 in 5,882
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 7,143
  5. 5Alabama1 in 9,091
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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

Notable people named Rogers

People whose public names include Rogers, 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.

Rogers in other languages

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

Roger

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

Rogers by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,925
Best rank ever
#484
1902
Peak year
1950
164 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,035
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,814
1939
Peak year
1925
6 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rogers

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

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Names with a curve like Rogers

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

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Sibling names for Rogers

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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