Roo
- Gender
- Unisex
- Say it
- ROO
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,511 for boys
Unisex
Roo is a name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,511th for boys in the UK (9 babies).
What does Roo mean?
English: pet form of names like Ruby, Rupert and Rory
Roo is the young kangaroo in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
Is Roo a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Roo has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 9 boys in the UK.
How popular is Roo in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,511among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 33,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the UK were named Roo, making it the 2,511th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd. 5 girls were also named Roo in 2025 (4,276th for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Roo of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Roo in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 68 boys in the UK were given Roo or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #567, up from #2,511 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 36% of the babies named Roo in the UK were girls.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,436th in England and Wales.
Roo in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,511 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 7 | #2,965 |
| 2022 | 8 | #2,678 |
| 2021 | 8 | #2,619 |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 8 | #2,633 |
| 2018 | 8 | #2,576 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
Names like Roo
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
River Kairo Reign Rupert Rory Ruairi Rowan Remy Ezra Yusuf Arlo Myles
Other spellings of Roo
Names related to Roo
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Roo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/roo, updated 20 October 2026.