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Roger

Boys' name · Mid-century perennial

Living in the US
~269,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#832 among boys
Births in 2025
297 443,830 since 1880
Typical age
67 years, median

Roger popularity over time

Roger rank by birth year, 1880–2025Roger ranked #341 in 1880 and #832 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #22, in 1945.#100#1,000#832best #22 in 194518901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1953: 13,200 births recorded as Roger. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Across the record, 55 years put Roger in the top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #832 with 297 births. Compared with 2015, births are down 38%. Year on year the rank dropped by 83.

Babies named Roger per yearPeaks at 13,200 births in 1953.13,200 in 1953018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Roger?

About 269,300 people named Roger are alive in the United States today. That is out of 443,830 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Roger?

The typical living Roger is 67 years old. The 1950s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Roger a mid-century perennial name.

Your Roger

Ages of living people named RogerHalf of living Rogers are older than 67 and half younger.median 67020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Roger is most common

The name is concentrated in Wisconsin, at 1.6× the national rate. Minnesota, Maryland and Virginia follow.

Where Roger is used more than average4 states use the name Roger more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: 1.5× the national rateMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: 1.6× the national rateWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: 1.4× the national rateVAMaryland: 1.4× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Roger is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Wisconsin 77 1.6×
Minnesota 77 1.5×
Maryland 70 1.4×
Virginia 108 1.4×

Roger in England and Wales

ONS recorded 9 births named Roger in 2025, ranking it #2,440. That is 40% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Roger comes from

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Roger

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Roger Federer Swiss tennis player 1981 159
Roger Martin du Gard French writer 1881–1958 100
Roger Ebert American film critic and author 1942–2013 99
Roger Moore English actor 1927–2017 96
Roger Bacon English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292) 1220–1292 93
Roger Penrose English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher 1931 91
Roger Waters English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd 1943 79
Roger D. Kornberg American biochemist 1947 67
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 241 in 1911 to 469 in 1912 — 1.9 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Roger

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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