Entry № 6986 · Scottish origin

Monroe Monroe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mun-ROH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Mouth of the river Rotha (Mariah Carey's daughter; Marilyn Monroe surname)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "mouth of the river rotha (mariah carey's daughter; marilyn monroe surname)".

Monroe is the Scottish surname Mac an Rothaich — "mouth of the river Rotha" (in County Roscommon, Ireland). Monroe Street in Manhattan and across US cities. Monroe County exists in 17 US states. The name Monroe emerged in US top-1000 girls' names in 2012 — directly traceable to Mariah's daughter — and has continued climbing since.

Mouth of the river Rotha.

The name in its native script.

Monroe
Transliteration
Monroe
Pronunciation
/ mənˈroʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Monroe stands.

Monroe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Monroes before her.

Real people
Marilyn Monroe
Iconic American actress (surname).
1926 – 1962
Monroe Cannon
Daughter of Mariah Carey.
born 2011
In fiction
Monroe
Grimm (NBC).
2011

Names connected to Monroe.

The number behind Monroe.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Monroe reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.