Monroe

What Monroe means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Monroe yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 81% of US babies named Monroe in 2025 were girls Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Monroe?

US: Rising: up from #717 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1114 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 658 girls got the name (#467 that year). First in the US records in 1928.

How common

• About 1 in 2,443 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,665 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.48 per 1,000 girls), UT (2.11 per 1,000 girls), ND (1.85 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Monroe is #467 in the US and #922 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 80.7% of US babies named Monroe were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Monroe

Girls

• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Kensley#741Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1987, with 8 babies
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Kinslee#955Variant of Kinsley, meaning “Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland…^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*

For a brother

• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Holden#297Editor’s note Steady in the US: #291 in 2015 and #297 in 2025
• Zayne#473Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 6 babies
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Tucker#181Editor’s note Steady in the US: #186 in 2015 and #181 in 2025
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Monroe’s. Rank is US 2025.