Rosaleen
Rosaleen was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,503 among girls’ names; 1,218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosaleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosaleen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosaleen is “a female given name from Irish.”
Anglicized from Irish Róisín, a diminutive of Rose.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosaleen?
#6,503 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosaleen rose from #7,207 in 2015 to #6,503 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 11.2 per million.
51 babies in 2019, the peak
Rosaleen peaked in 2019, when 51 girls were given it, #3,159 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,503 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,416 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,909 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,408 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,626 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,989 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,159 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,388 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,292 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,534 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,207 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,396 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,202 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,543 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,043 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,619 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,847 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,564 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,166 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,770 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,352 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,904 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,551 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,044 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,115 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,593 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,043 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,238 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,242 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,208 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,357 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,408 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,026 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,862 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,961 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,969 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,161 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,348 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,920 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,470 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,185 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,783 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,855 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,610 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,410 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,440 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,371 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,213 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,216 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,409 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,116 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,585 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,138 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,832 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,759 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,345 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,048 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,177 | 4.8 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,077 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,246 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,702 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,959 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,930 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,884 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,327 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,331 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,517 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,337 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,280 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,865 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,704 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,896 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,864 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,118 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,405 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,829 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,013 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,402 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,284 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,083 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,361 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,664 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,140 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,838 | 18.9 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,295 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,250 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,744 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,037 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,867 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,136 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,647 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,845 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,491 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,727 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosaleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosaleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosaleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosaleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 798 Americans named Rosaleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 8 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Rosaleen (873 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 740 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 29,810 babies since 1880, Rosaleen is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 399 babies (4.5%), again the third 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.
More about Rosaleen and names like it
- Compare Rosaleen and RosalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRosaleen peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosaleen since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Rosaleen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Rosaleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rosaleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.