girls:
307 births since 2011
#5409 (5th percentile)
boys:
98 births since 2014
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
405 births since 2011
#7334 (5th percentile)
The name Roux is the #7,334 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 405 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 5.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,409 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 307 births since 2011. For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 2014.
Roux first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (2011 for girls and 2014 for boys). Birth data for Roux is available in 12 out of the 13 years between 2011 and 2023 (12 years for girls and 9 years for boys). 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 Roux has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 77.0% of babies named Roux were girls.
For girls, Roux reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #905) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 27 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Roux is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #905 (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million.
For boys, Roux reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #916) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Roux ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 75.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roux".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Roux is pronounced as rue, which has 1 syllables.
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