Monroe

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Monroe: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Monroe: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #384, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#384highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#4049
2012	#2338
2013	#1774
2014	#1501
2015	#1114
2016	#1472
2017	#1184
2018	#952
2019	#996
2020	#941
2021	#840
2022	#982
2023	#794
2024	#722

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 15 of the 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #722 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2008–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4432 among boys in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #722 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Monroe appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 203 births with the name.

Monroe across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Monroe's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4432 (2008)	#1243 (2023)	#1675 (2024)	15 of 17	203 (2008–2024)	22 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#4049 (2011)	#722 (2024)	#722 (2024)	14 of 14	418 (2011–2024)	52 (2024)

Monroe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Monroe in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	109	9 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	91	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Monroe appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #384 in Scotland in 2024.

Monroe's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#722	52	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#794	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1243	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#982	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#996	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#952	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1324	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1114	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2008 and 2024, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #384, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 52 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Knox · #392, 15y
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Posie · #397, 12y
Connall · #369, 15y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alyana · #384, 14y
Arlie · #384, 22y
Aspen · #384, 24y
John Paul · #384, 18y

Monroe was ranked #384 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Monroe and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Monroe without appearing here.

Monroe moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4049 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1774 and #5742.
Jeanette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2338 and #5876.
Meabh Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2338 and #5876.
Espen Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3416 and #3039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1462 and #4685.

Moved ahead of Monroe

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #996 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #941 and #460.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1243 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #1460.

Moved the opposite way to Monroe

Aaron Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 while Aaron went from #55 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 while Alan went from #226 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 while Alexander went from #19 to #36.
Alfie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 while Alfie went from #6 to #16.

Moved the same way as Monroe

Aksel Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 and Aksel from #3158 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 and Albie from #341 to #19.
Archie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 and Archie from #31 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Monroe went from #4432 to #1675 and Arlo from #567 to #15.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #384 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Monroe

Monroe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Monroe across 2 official records

Monroe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Monroe appears in

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Monroe at a glance

Monroe across 2 official records

Monroe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Monroe

Monroe and the names beside it

Monroe moved ahead of

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