Roosevelt
Roosevelt is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,763 among girls’ names and #4,361 among boys’, #7,083 among all names counting both); 38,024 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Roosevelt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 48 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roosevelt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roosevelt mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roosevelt is “a male given name transferred from the surname, given in honor of the presidents.” Its etymology gives the senses “wild rose / poppy?” (rose) and “open country; field” (velt) and “rush reed” (rusch).
From a Dutch name of a farm, either Rozenveld (one in Zeeland) or Ruiseveld (one in Brabant), from Middle Dutch; the former could be a compound of rose (“wild rose / poppy?”) + velt (“open country; field”) or like the latter of rusch (“rush reed”) + velt, “open land growing with rushes”.
/ˈɹoʊ.zə.vɛlt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roosevelt?
#4,361 among boys’ names, 2025
Roosevelt fell from #2,519 in 2015 to #4,361 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 14.1 per million.
1,225 babies in 1933, the peak
Roosevelt peaked in 1933, when 1,225 babies were given it (1,208 boys, #132 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,166 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,784 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,069 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,346 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,190 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,982 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,705 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,382 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (131)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,519 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,570 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,588 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,989 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,396 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,285 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,112 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,095 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,418 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 62 | #1,898 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,908 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,859 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,936 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 76 | #1,497 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,844 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,290 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,439 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,151 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,121 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 125 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 126 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 132 | #913 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 144 | #849 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 160 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 148 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 150 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 141 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 157 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 170 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 140 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 159 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 164 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 207 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 189 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 164 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 202 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 207 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 200 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 220 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 203 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 230 | #521 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 258 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 288 | #474 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 259 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 297 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1967 | 292 | #443 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 305 | #437 | 0.17 |
| 1965 | 353 | #415 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 394 | #401 | 0.20 |
| 1963 | 440 | #380 | 0.22 |
| 1962 | 422 | #394 | 0.20 |
| 1961 | 428 | #384 | 0.20 |
| 1960 | 473 | #359 | 0.22 |
| 1959 | 469 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1958 | 494 | #343 | 0.23 |
| 1957 | 585 | #315 | 0.27 |
| 1956 | 608 | #303 | 0.29 |
| 1955 | 588 | #300 | 0.29 |
| 1954 | 609 | #287 | 0.30 |
| 1953 | 587 | #290 | 0.30 |
| 1952 | 594 | #285 | 0.31 |
| 1951 | 557 | #291 | 0.30 |
| 1950 | 584 | #273 | 0.33 |
| 1949 | 607 | #267 | 0.34 |
| 1948 | 596 | #273 | 0.34 |
| 1947 | 553 | #294 | 0.30 |
| 1946 | 517 | #284 | 0.32 |
| 1945 | 566 | #236 | 0.42 |
| 1944 | 567 | #238 | 0.42 |
| 1943 | 611 | #239 | 0.43 |
| 1942 | 608 | #229 | 0.44 |
| 1941 | 647 | #209 | 0.53 |
| 1940 | 635 | #203 | 0.55 |
| 1939 | 586 | #209 | 0.53 |
| 1938 | 663 | #195 | 0.60 |
| 1937 | 680 | #190 | 0.64 |
| 1936 | 738 | #180 | 0.71 |
| 1935 | 758 | #179 | 0.73 |
| 1934 | 1,016 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1933 | 1,208 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1932 | 832 | #171 | 0.80 |
| 1931 | 468 | #246 | 0.45 |
| 1930 | 533 | #238 | 0.49 |
| 1929 | 495 | #251 | 0.46 |
| 1928 | 509 | #248 | 0.46 |
| 1927 | 483 | #263 | 0.43 |
| 1926 | 472 | #259 | 0.43 |
| 1925 | 449 | #269 | 0.40 |
| 1924 | 403 | #285 | 0.36 |
| 1923 | 425 | #276 | 0.39 |
| 1922 | 365 | #297 | 0.34 |
| 1921 | 365 | #296 | 0.33 |
| 1920 | 358 | #301 | 0.34 |
| 1919 | 359 | #279 | 0.37 |
| 1918 | 331 | #305 | 0.33 |
| 1917 | 285 | #321 | 0.31 |
| 1916 | 328 | #284 | 0.37 |
| 1915 | 272 | #314 | 0.32 |
| 1914 | 266 | #269 | 0.41 |
| 1913 | 241 | #245 | 0.47 |
| 1912 | 267 | #208 | 0.62 |
| 1911 | 197 | #168 | 0.87 |
| 1910 | 222 | #144 | 1.1 |
| 1909 | 160 | #156 | 1.0 |
| 1908 | 194 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1907 | 220 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1906 | 198 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1905 | 264 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 1904 | 230 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 1903 | 196 | #98 | 1.6 |
| 1902 | 166 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1901 | 90 | #166 | 0.85 |
| 1900 | 72 | #241 | 0.48 |
| 1899 | 23 | #391 | 0.22 |
| 1898 | 8 | #875 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 7 | #920 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 7 | #964 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 12 | #636 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roosevelt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roosevelt has been given almost only to boys: 363 girls in 131 years of records.
Girls and boys named Roosevelt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roosevelt, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 42% of the 38,024 Americans ever recorded as Roosevelt. The median Roosevelt alive today is 64 years old; half are between 48 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 13,325 people named Roosevelt (128 women and girls, 13,197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,871 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,270 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,650 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,410 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Roosevelt born?
The states with the most babies named Roosevelt are Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 4,966 | not ranked | 7.7× |
| Alabama | 3,675 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Georgia | 3,288 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| South Carolina | 3,098 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Louisiana | 2,709 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Florida | 2,225 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 2,098 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 1,704 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 1,612 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 1,279 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Roosevelt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roosevelt is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 7.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Roosevelt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 41,386 babies since 1880, Roosevelt is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 36 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roosevelt
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Roosevelt and names like it
- Compare Roosevelt and RoseveltBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sRoosevelt peaked in 1933.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roosevelt since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Roosevelt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Roosevelt.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roosevelt alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.