# Rogers (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rogers/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Rodgers |
| US babies named this | 7,056 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,035 / 21 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 6 | 4,867 |
| 1939 | 5 | 4,816 |
| 1950 | 5 | 5,946 |
| 1953 | 5 | 6,356 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | 8,174 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,735 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,529 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,427 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,966 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,977 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,498 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,403 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,514 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,017 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,575 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,654 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,689 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,764 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,727 |

## People named Rogers

- Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, manager
- Rogers Morton, American politician (1914-1979)
- Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist
- L. Rogers Lytton, American actor (1867-1924)
- Prince, American musician (1958–2016)
- John Searle, American philosopher (1932–2025)
- Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas, British mammalogist (1858–1929)
- Devis Epassy, French and Cameroonian footballer
- John R. Commons, American economist and historian (1862–1945)
- Joseph R. Underwood, American politician (1791–1876)
- Ogden R. Reid, American politician (1925–2019)

## 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.