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Roger
Pronounced /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
Rank in 2024
#748
Born in 2024
340
Peak year
1953 · #31
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 340 boys were named Roger, about 1 in every 5,045.
- It peaked in 1953 with 13,171 babies, ranked #31.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 441,840 boys have been named Roger since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Roger per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.5Greatest1901–27
- 5.4Silent1928–45
- 5.4Boomers1946–64
- 2.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 25,306 babies, 1.51 per 1,000. Silent: 112,102 babies, 5.43 per 1,000. Boomers: 203,866 babies, 5.43 per 1,000. Gen X: 60,332 babies, 2.22 per 1,000. Millennials: 24,280 babies, 0.80 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10,103 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,821 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Roger, CC BY-SA 4.0.