Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Roan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Roan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Roan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Roan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Roan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Roan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Roan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Roan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 -100%
1998 15 0.000004078 15 -100%
1999 22 0.000005956 8 14 -27%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 -100%
2001 39 0.000010418 39 -100%
2002 56 0.00001498 8 48 -71%
2003 78 0.000020514 10 68 -74%
2004 109 0.000028527 13 96 -76%
2005 114 0.00002965 7 107 -88%
2006 113 0.000028563 7 106 -88%
2007 116 0.000029017 13 103 -78%
2008 115 0.000029257 5 110 -91%
2009 92 0.000024083 7 85 -85%
2010 98 0.000026517 8 90 -84%
2011 88 0.000024058 9 79 -80%
2012 85 0.000023241 9 76 -79%
2013 94 0.000025784 6 88 -87%
2014 93 0.000025092 5 88 -89%
2015 108 0.000029182 10 98 -81%
2016 95 0.000025895 10 85 -79%
2017 140 0.000039148 12 128 -83%
2018 144 0.000040957 17 127 -76%
2019 148 0.00004264 16 132 -78%
2020 149 0.000044603 18 131 -76%
2021 145 0.000042799 19 126 -74%
2022 128 0.000037835 12 116 -81%
2023 126 0.000038053 9 117 -86%
2024 157 0.000047168 16 141 -80%

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