Boy
Monroe
As a boy's name, Monroe is understood to mean "Mouth of the Roe river". It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
Scottish GaelicScottish Gaelic
Etymology"Mouth of the Roe river"
Births by decade
1900s
720
1910s
2,450
1920s
3,202
1930s
2,169
1940s
1,859
1950s
1,283
1960s
754
1970s
534
1980s
384
1990s
366
2000s
589
2010s
3,242
Peaked in the 2010s · 17,552 total U.S. births since 1900