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Monroe

Pronounced /mənˈɹoʊ/

Rank in 2024
#568
Born in 2024
529
Peak year
2021 · #525
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:153 in 2024 (#1,279)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 529 girls were named Monroe, about 1 in every 3,050.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 587 babies, ranked #525.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1928.
  • 6,603 girls have been named Monroe since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Monroe per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 14 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 6 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 792 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,781 babies, 0.28 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”) + Roe, a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "man from the River Roe".

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/mənˈɹoʊ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Monroe, CC BY-SA 4.0.