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Monroe

Pronounced /mənˈɹoʊ/

Rank in 2024
#1,279
Born in 2024
153
Peak year
1921 · #289
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:529 in 2024 (#568)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 153 boys were named Monroe, about 1 in every 11,211.
  • It peaked in 1921 with 375 babies, ranked #289.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 16,933 boys 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. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,721 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Silent: 3,830 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,428 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 926 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 597 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 586 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,577 babies, 0.07 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.