Roger
Roger is ranked 750th among boys in 2024 (340 births). Its best rank was 22nd, in 1945.
- Rank in 2024
- #750up 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3400.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 195313,171 births
- Best rank
- #22in 1945
- Since 1880
- 443,528people given the name
The story in the numbers
441,840 boys have been named Roger in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1953, with 13,171 births — 0.67% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 340 births in 2024, against 13,171 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 55 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,688 girls have also been given it, 0.38% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roger | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 342 | |
| 1890s | 607 | |
| 1900s | 928 | |
| 1910s | 8,408 | |
| 1920s | 21,753 | |
| 1930s | 49,612 | |
| 1940s | 107,597 | |
| 1950s | 110,156 | |
| 1960s | 71,441 | |
| 1970s | 29,718 | |
| 1980s | 18,002 | |
| 1990s | 10,655 | |
| 2000s | 6,360 | |
| 2010s | 4,473 | |
| 2020s | 1,788 |
In 1953, its biggest year
Roger was the 31st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1953 were Robert, James, Michael, John and David. See all of 1953.
Names that rose and fell with Roger
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rodgerpeak 1949
- Waynepeak 1947
- Danniepeak 1953
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Gaylenpeak 1949
- Tommypeak 1947
- Jerrypeak 1947
- Gaylonpeak 1949
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.