Given name & surname · also Anglo-Saxon
Ro
“a red-haired man”·“resembling a roe deer”
Ro is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a red-haired man” and “resembling a roe deer”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “a red-haired man” and “resembling a roe deer”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Anglo-Saxon and English naming traditions.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 39 boys · 24 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,488 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,488 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,339 as a first name in 2020; 2,558 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ro’s family of names
In English usage, Ro is a diminutive of Ronald. Ro has a related form in Roe. Ro has a related form in Rowe.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ro has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Old English roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ro
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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