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Boy's name · #1465 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Few names move less than Ross — on the books since 1880, #1465 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 82,000 boys have carried the name since. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 16 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Ross ranks in other countries and regions.
#243 in Scotland (2025) · #329 in Ireland (2025) · #395 in N. Ireland (2025) · #1,500 in Canada (2025) · #2,014 in England & Wales (2025) · #6,003 in France (2025) · #1,456 in Sweden (2023) · #22,316 in Italy (2022) · #8,412 in Ecuador (2018) · #429 in New Zealand (2012) · #97 in Australia (QLD) (1984) · #86 in Australia (NSW) (1983).
It is also an American family name — about 229,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 1,352 notable people named Ross:
Sports figures appear 1.92× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ross Barkley, English footballer (born 1993).
Similar names: Van · Roy · Irvin · Clyde · Boyd · Mack
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