Gender-neutral · #467 in 2025

Monroe

Monroe: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#467
Born 2025
658
Peak year
2025

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Monroe per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2025. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Monroe has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. 2025 is its highest share on record.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 80% of children named Monroe were recorded as girls and 20% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.