Roan
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) person from Rouen, France; (ii) different form of Ruane
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) person from Rouen, France; (ii) different form of Ruane
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Roan is read(measured from records)
Roan is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Southern Sotho49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roan in Southern Sotho.
- English22%
(i) person from Rouen, France; (ii) different form of Ruane
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from Rouen, Normandy; first attested William de Rotomago 1148 Winton (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Spanish9.6%
inflection of roer:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.6K | Roan | 301 |
| IN India | — | — | Roan | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14 | Roan | 93 |
| AL Albania | — | 1.5K | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | 927 | — | — |
| FR France | — | 580 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 430 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, In Ireland a variant of Rowan especially around Athlone; the English name Roan is derived from the French town Rouen
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Khmer, quick, so rapid that the mo tion cannot be stopped; a. very quickly. sudden pain, sudden s ic k n e s s (often followed by death). rapid, in a hurry, as soon as possible. § to hurry up. o uCfUinWnS a rapid walk or gait. ° to rush somewhere. nsms
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In Occitan, Rouen (a city in France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles H. Roanb. 1923USUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Oscar Roanb. 1951USAmerican football player
- Michael Roanb. 1972USAmerican football player
- Roan Johnsonb. 1974ITItalian writer and screenwriter
- Dan Roanb. 1977GBBritish journalist
- Roan Carneirob. 1978BRBrazilian martial artist
- Roan Curtisb. 1997CACanadian actress
- Roan Pronkb. 2001NLDutch musicalactor
- Roan Wilsonb. 2002CRCosta Rican footballer
- Deborah SmithUSnot in their usual nameUS arachnologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #6,532 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.5K | #314 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 927 | #752 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 580 | #2,111 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 430 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 428 | #14,839 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 420 | #15,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 308 | #6,532 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 149 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 62 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roan mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from Rouen, France; (ii) different form of Ruane Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Roan have the most bearers?
- Roan is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled roan.
What do you want to know about Roan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.