girls:
44 births since 2005
#5672 (1st percentile)
boys:
11.5k births since 1969
#1073 (77th percentile)
overall:
11.5k births since 1969
#2454 (68th percentile)
The name Rohan is the #2,454 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,547 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 68.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,073 (76.6% percentile) for all time with 11,503 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,672 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 2005.
Rohan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Rohan is available in 54 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (54 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rohan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rohan reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 48.2% percentile (ranked #439) with 247 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 247 births per million (ranked 48.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rohan ranks #629 for boys (31.0% percentile) with 161 births per million, which is 65.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rohan reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #937) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rohan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rohan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Rohan is pronounced as ROH-huhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-han, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW1 HH AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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