Róger
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Róger is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 294,726 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Switzerland it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English and French Roger. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1789. Róger is also written רוגר in Hebrew and রোগের in Bengali.
- SESweden1 in 279(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 350
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 560
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #312 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 599 (measured from records)
- 1 in 279 (inferred from the name graph)
294,726 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Róger in other scripts: Hebrew and Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roger in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From English and French Roger. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1789.
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Róger 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 | #144 | 294,726 | 1 in 1.1K | 294K | Roger | 599 |
| PH Philippines | #130 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Roger | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | #109 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 638 | 38 | Roger | 317 |
| CA Canada | #121 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 599 | 3 | Roger | 282 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40,915 | 1 in 5.2K | 41K | — | 8 |
| SE Sweden | #130 | 36,515 | 1 in 279 | 37K | Roger | 128 |
| CH Switzerland | #40 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 347 | 147 | Roger | 147 |
| NZ New Zealand | #85 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 563 | — | Roger | 145 |
294,726 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Róger Floresb. 1959CRCosta Rican footballer
- Róger Gómezb. 1965CRCosta Rican footballer
- Róger Calerob. 1969USAmerican journalist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Róger mean, and where does it come from?
- From English and French Roger. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1789. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 8 other sources.
- Is Róger a male or female name?
- Róger is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Róger?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 295 thousand people named Róger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roger. After it come Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Róger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Róger is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 279 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Róger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 294,726 people named Róger in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Róger compared with other names?
- In the United States, Róger is the 144th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%B3gerThe 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, “Róger” — ranked 174th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.