# Rowdy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rowdy/  
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 | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,055 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,980 / 75 (1% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 19,447 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,342 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,665 |
| 2020 | 5 | 17,055 |
| 2021 | 8 | 11,995 |
| 2022 | 11 | 9,551 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,977 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,940 |
| 2025 | 16 | 7,080 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 127 | 1,341 |
| 2012 | 108 | 1,497 |
| 2013 | 122 | 1,384 |
| 2014 | 138 | 1,291 |
| 2015 | 133 | 1,333 |
| 2016 | 129 | 1,379 |
| 2017 | 120 | 1,437 |
| 2018 | 135 | 1,339 |
| 2019 | 119 | 1,466 |
| 2020 | 167 | 1,159 |
| 2021 | 192 | 1,094 |
| 2022 | 205 | 1,070 |
| 2023 | 219 | 1,006 |
| 2024 | 251 | 926 |
| 2025 | 250 | 941 |

## 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.