Roper Boy
How popular is Roper?
#3,035 boy name in 2025
40 baby boys were named Roper in the US in 2025, making it the 3035th most popular boy name.
Roper popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,035 for boys (▼ 361 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 40 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+111% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,888 in 2015, #3,568 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (49 boys) |
| Highest rank | #2,674 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1992 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 98% boys, 2% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Roper counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Roper family of names ranked #2,075 for boys in 2025 (#1,896 the year before), with 52 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Roper | 40 | 77% |
| Ropyr | 12 | 23% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Roper is most popular
Babies named Roper per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Oklahoma: 0.2 per 1,000 (19 boys)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 boys)
- Missouri: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 boys)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (43 boys)
- Alabama: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 boys)
Roper by decade
Boy names about as popular as Roper
Questions
- Is Roper a boy or girl name?
- Roper is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 98% of babies named Roper were boys.
- How popular is the name Roper?
- 40 baby boys were named Roper in the US in 2025, making it the 3035th most popular boy name.
- When was Roper most popular?
- Roper peaked in 2024, when 49 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,674 in 2024.
- How many people are named Roper?
- 655 babies have been named Roper in the US since 1880. We estimate about 649 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Roper most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Roper was most common in Oklahoma, at 0.2 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.