Rowdy
#941 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rowdy has been given to 5,055 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #941 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 251 recorded.
Babies named Rowdy, 2025
1 in 13,300
Rowdy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rowdy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 13,300
- 250 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 6,830
- 0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #941
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 9,193 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rowdy 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 9,193 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rowdy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rowdys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rowdy was born before 2010 — so the typical Rowdy is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 25.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,980
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (1,284).
Is Rowdy 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
- −15
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +218
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +392
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.88×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 99.6%
- Peak was 2024 (251)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.4% average annual change
Spellings of Rowdy
Rowdy is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 29.2% against Rowdy's 0.36%.
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 Rowdy is used
Across 2016–2025, Rowdy was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,471 boys, against 1 in 9,964 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 1,471
- 2Oklahoma1 in 1,563
- 3South Dakota1 in 2,857
- 4Arkansas1 in 3,704
- 5Idaho1 in 4,000
- 6Louisiana1 in 4,762
- 7Alabama1 in 5,882
- 8Missouri1 in 5,882
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.
Rowdy around the world
Where Rowdy 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.
- Canada2008–2022#2,602in 2022
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rowdy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rowdy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Rowdy
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rowdy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Rowdy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.