Rowdy
Rowdy reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 922, and has been recorded 5,055 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 940th. About 4,900 Rowdys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,055
- Estimated living today
- 4,900
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 922nd
- Rank in 2025
- 940th
- First recorded
- 1959
- Girls / boys
- 75 / 4,980
How old the living Rowdys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,055 babies given the name since 1959, about 4,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Notable Rowdys
- Rowdy Gaines (born 1959)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, television sports commentator
People named Rowdy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rowdy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rowdy is most concentrated in Oklahoma (11.9×), Texas (5.2×), Idaho (3.7×), Utah (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Rowdy peaked:
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Rowdy 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.