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Roper

About 655 American babies have been named Roper since 1992, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 3,036th. About 650 Ropers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Roper boys named Roper

By the numbers

Total US births
655
Estimated living today
650
Median age today
9
Peak year
2024
Best rank
2,674th
Rank in 2025
3,036th
First recorded
1992
Girls / boys
8 / 647

How old the living Ropers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 655 babies given the name since 1992, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 Roper is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Roper is most concentrated in Oklahoma (24.2×), Texas (5.6×).

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

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Roper peaked:

All the names of 2024

Try it on yourself

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.