# Monroe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/monroe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “human being”, “person”, “man”, “man from the river roe” |
| Pronunciation | /mənˈɹoʊ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 24,360 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,094 / 7,266 (30% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 683, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 143 | 1,538 |
| 2012 | 267 | 954 |
| 2013 | 356 | 767 |
| 2014 | 359 | 781 |
| 2015 | 396 | 721 |
| 2016 | 419 | 692 |
| 2017 | 428 | 683 |
| 2018 | 502 | 604 |
| 2019 | 510 | 597 |
| 2020 | 557 | 541 |
| 2021 | 587 | 526 |
| 2022 | 568 | 544 |
| 2023 | 574 | 530 |
| 2024 | 530 | 573 |
| 2025 | 658 | 467 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,779 |
| 2012 | 79 | 1,857 |
| 2013 | 111 | 1,481 |
| 2014 | 120 | 1,409 |
| 2015 | 142 | 1,269 |
| 2016 | 129 | 1,377 |
| 2017 | 133 | 1,345 |
| 2018 | 117 | 1,486 |
| 2019 | 113 | 1,513 |
| 2020 | 115 | 1,484 |
| 2021 | 189 | 1,104 |
| 2022 | 116 | 1,548 |
| 2023 | 141 | 1,343 |
| 2024 | 154 | 1,280 |
| 2025 | 157 | 1,262 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,501 |
| 2015 | 31 | 1,114 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,472 |
| 2017 | 29 | 1,184 |
| 2018 | 38 | 952 |
| 2019 | 35 | 996 |
| 2020 | 37 | 941 |
| 2021 | 42 | 840 |
| 2022 | 35 | 982 |
| 2023 | 45 | 794 |
| 2024 | 52 | 722 |
| 2025 | 38 | 922 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,462 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,324 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,516 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,366 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,243 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,675 |
| 2025 | 24 | 1,197 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: مُونْرُو, مُونْرُو
- Chinese: 門羅 /门罗
- Japanese: モンロー
- Korean: 몬로
- Russian: Монро́
- Scottish Gaelic: Rothach

## People named Monroe

- Monroe, French-American singer (born 2008)
- Monroe Beardsley, American philosopher
- Monroe Salisbury, actor (1876-1935)
- Monroe Owsley, American actor (1900-1937)
- Monroe Edwards, American slave trader, forger and convicted criminal
- Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)
- Michael Lewis, American writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.