Roan is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
Roan is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1408 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,407 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Roan.
Roan Curtis (*1997)
The Young American actress Roan Curtis is best known for portraying Young Kate in Netflix's romantic drama series 'Firefly Lane' (starting 2021) which is based on the eponymous novel (2008) by Kristin Hannah. Before she transitioned into acting she had a career as a model. She also appeared in the science fiction teen drama 'Before I Fall' (2017).
Roan Johnson (*1975)
Roan Occam Anthony Johnson is an Italian director and screenwriter. He grew up in Pisa and attended the National Film School in Rome. He made his professional directing and screenwriting debut in 2011 by releasing the feature film 'The First on the List.' Among his most notable works as a director are 'So Far So Good' (2014), 'Piuma' (2016) and 'State a casa' (2021).
Roan Carneiro (*1978)
The former mixed martial artist Roan Carneiro Pereira was born in Brazil where he started fighting MMA professionally at the age of 22. Before entering the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he amassed a record of 10-5. During his time at UFC, he faced several strong competitors, winning roughly half of the fights.
Roan Fel
Roan Fel is a fictional character in the 'Star Wars: Legacy' series (2006 – 2010). He is the third Galactic Emperor of the galaxy under the Fel dynasty to rule the Fel Empire. He was also an Imperial Knight, part of a Force-sensitive organization that rejected the dark side.
When you hear the name Roan, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Roan? Are you also called Roan? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
The Roan Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in Utah and Colorado that are less known than the closely associated Book Cliffs to which they run roughly parallel.
Two Creeks in the U.S. are named Roan Creek, a tributary of the Watauga River in Tennessee as well as a tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado.
Roan Mountain is a 6,285 ft mountain in the Unaka Range of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. It includes the world's largest natural rhododendron garden.
The Roan Mountain State Park is located in Carter County, Tennessee. It is situated in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, and preserves 2,006 acres of mostly forest.
In western Colorado, you can find The Roan Plateau that attracts with a variety of natural ressources: high ridges, desert lands, waterfalls, mountain lions, bears, rare plants...
In fact, the name Roan did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Roan seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,156, 148 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Roan, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Roan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Roan a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,306 - with a total of 128 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds that a man or boy named Roan lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Roan in 21 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Roan live in Washington – here, one in 55,703 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 182,830 will turn around if you call his first name Roan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Roan is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Roan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Roan, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Roan
Roan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
O
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Roan sounds like this:
