Roe
Roe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 647th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191625 births
- Best rank
- #647in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
899 boys have been named Roe in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 25 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Roe is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (197), most of them born around 2023.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | |
| 1890s | 48 | |
| 1900s | 40 | |
| 1910s | 156 | |
| 1920s | 148 | |
| 1930s | 134 | |
| 1940s | 111 | |
| 1950s | 93 | |
| 1960s | 19 | |
| 1970s | 21 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 39 | |
| 2020s | 50 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Roe was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Roe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dewittpeak 1921
- Percypeak 1921
- Wrightpeak 1915
- Archiepeak 1918
- Parkpeak 1923
- Claudepeak 1920
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.