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How popular is the name Roan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Roans are alive today.
Roan (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 914th in 2025 with 34 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2006, when 57 babies were given the name, the 523rd most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2020, with 49 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1421 in 2014 before climbing back to the 914th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Roan is one spelling of a name also recorded as Roen; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Roan you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old - or else around 5: the name has two living generations. Half of all Roans born in England and Wales are between 6 and 21, and there are at least 1,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Roan - on average, only one in every 303 such rooms contains a Roan.
How many babies are named Roan each year?
Includes all spellings: Roan, Roen. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Roan spelling rank?
Where does the Roen spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Roan most popular?
Roan peaked in 2006, when 61 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Roan?
At least 1,000 people named Roan in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Roan?
Most living Roans are between 6 and 21; the most common age is about 21. There is a second cluster around 5.
Is Roan becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.