girls:
51 births since 1944
#5665 (1st percentile)
boys:
313 births since 1952
#4273 (7th percentile)
overall:
364 births since 1944
#7375 (5th percentile)
The name Roi is the #7,375 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 364 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 4.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,273 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 313 births since 1952. For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1944.
Roi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Roi is available in 38 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (32 years for boys and 8 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 Roi has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Roi were boys. Interestingly, until around 1954, the name was more popular for girls (79.3% girls from 1944 to 1953), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (98.4% boys from 1954 to 2023).
For boys, Roi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #892) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Roi is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #892 (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million.
For girls, Roi reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #674) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roi".
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