Roanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic; little red-haired one; also related to Rose Anna
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ˈɹoʊnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roanna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 683K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 102K
- GYGuyana1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
487 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Irish Gaelic; little red-haired one; also related to Rose Anna.
Cited for this meaning 1
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Where in the world
(measured from records)Roanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 487 | 1 in 683K | 487 | Roanna | 188 |
| PH Philippines | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Roanna | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 320K | listed | Roanna | 81 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 1 | Roanna | 66 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 323K | 1 | Roanna | 48 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Roanna | 24 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Roanna | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Roanna | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 1 |
487 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Roanna Wellsb. 1987English artist
- Mikaylia Haldaneb. 1993JMnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Jan FinlaysonNZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand community leader
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 487 | #21,023 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Roanna mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic; little red-haired one; also related to Rose Anna. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Roanna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Roanna a male or female name?
- Roanna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Roanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 487 people named Roanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roanna.
- How common is the name Roanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 487 people named Roanna in 2020, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roannaThe 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, “Roanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.