Given name & surname
Roe
“one who hunts deer”
Roe is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who hunts deer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who hunts deer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Roe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,119
- 909 boys · 210 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 21
- #8,248 for girls · #9,530 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +62%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,248 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 8 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 710 as a first name in 2020; 24,654 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.
Roe’s family of names
Roe has a related form in Ro. Roe has a related form in Rowe. Roe has a related form in Row.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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