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Rohan

About 12,151 American babies have been named Rohan since 1969, most of them around 2004. In 2025 it ranked 810th. About 12,000 Rohans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rohan boys named Rohan

By the numbers

Total US births
12,151
Estimated living today
12,000
Median age today
16
Peak year
2004
Best rank
480th
Rank in 2025
810th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
49 / 12,102

How old the living Rohans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 12,151 babies given the name since 1969, about 12,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 6,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Habitational surname from Rohan in Morbihan, Brittany. Also a variant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Rohans

People named Rohan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rohan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rohan is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.1×), California (2.0×), Maryland (1.9×), Virginia (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Rohan peaked:

All the names of 2004

Rohan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rohan 6,576 160th
France boys Rohan 1,495 568th
Scotland boys Rohan 418 195th
Ireland boys Rohan 209 272nd
Belgium boys Rohan 196 721st
Switzerland boys Rohan 113 719th
Northern Ireland boys Rohan 89 239th
England and Wales girls Rohan 20 3,197th
Poland boys Rohan 6 birth registrations 663rd
Scotland girls Rohan 3 537th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Rohan: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Rohan 78 0.006% 648th
French boys Switzerland Rohan 29 0.007% 442nd
Italian boys Switzerland Rohan 6 0.009% 184th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Rohan is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 35 of them.

Rohan: rank by region

In 2025, Rohan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Rohan 589 9

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Rohan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Rohan 39 53

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Rohan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.