Rosaline
Rosaline was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,192 among girls’ names; 3,984 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Rosaline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 9 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosaline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosaline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosaline is “a female given name from Latin.”
An elaborate form of Rosalie, or a simplified form of Rosalind.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosaline?
#2,192 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosaline rose from #4,475 in 2015 to #2,192 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 52.9 per million.
88 babies in 1928, the peak
Rosaline peaked in 1928, when 88 girls were given it, #763 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,192 | 52.9 |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,005 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,611 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,550 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,992 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,384 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,887 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,481 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,010 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,650 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,475 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,431 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,968 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,544 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,515 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,936 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,010 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,648 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,149 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,620 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,754 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,770 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,160 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,364 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,727 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,668 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,126 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,583 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,323 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,006 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,987 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,621 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,579 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,733 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,380 | 7.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,174 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,846 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,312 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,957 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,677 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,864 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,039 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,684 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,297 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,376 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,257 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,380 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,110 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,901 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,529 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,093 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,252 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,472 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,434 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,988 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,280 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,850 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,238 | 17.1 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,145 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,295 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,123 | 16.6 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,648 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,138 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,631 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,908 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,059 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,403 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,994 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,686 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,575 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,731 | 18.1 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,672 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,657 | 18.9 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,468 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,731 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,767 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,690 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,550 | 21.0 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,474 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,232 | 31.6 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,389 | 25.8 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,342 | 27.4 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,289 | 29.8 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,465 | 24.5 |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,156 | 36.5 |
| 1938 | 49 | #1,028 | 44.4 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,178 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,181 | 35.6 |
| 1935 | 47 | #1,016 | 44.8 |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,145 | 37.3 |
| 1933 | 54 | #933 | 53.6 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,041 | 44.0 |
| 1931 | 61 | #882 | 57.3 |
| 1930 | 67 | #888 | 59.5 |
| 1929 | 67 | #873 | 60.0 |
| 1928 | 88 | #763 | 76.3 |
| 1927 | 64 | #950 | 53.7 |
| 1926 | 75 | #860 | 63.3 |
| 1925 | 85 | #805 | 69.8 |
| 1924 | 86 | #807 | 68.9 |
| 1923 | 78 | #834 | 64.7 |
| 1922 | 64 | #927 | 53.3 |
| 1921 | 71 | #883 | 57.6 |
| 1920 | 76 | #831 | 63.4 |
| 1919 | 67 | #856 | 59.3 |
| 1918 | 69 | #866 | 59.6 |
| 1917 | 63 | #876 | 58.3 |
| 1916 | 59 | #885 | 56.5 |
| 1915 | 55 | #890 | 55.9 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,076 | 42.0 |
| 1913 | 33 | #941 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,172 | 37.6 |
| 1911 | 22 | #953 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,199 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,094 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,423 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,360 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 15 | #998 | 50.8 |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,051 | 48.0 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,158 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,416 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,417 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,638 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,300 | 33.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,086 | 42.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,755 | 21.3 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,672 | 22.4 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,312 | 32.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosaline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosaline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 128 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosaline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosaline, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 3,984 Americans ever recorded as Rosaline. The median Rosaline alive today is 46 years old; half are between 9 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,623 people named Rosaline (2,618 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 213 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 464 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 325 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 156 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 187 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 664 |
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 Rosaline born?
The states with the most babies named Rosaline are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 229 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 221 | #2,451 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 160 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Hawaii | 123 | not ranked | 7.9× |
| Michigan | 115 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 49 | #2,014 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 37 | #1,412 | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rosaline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rosaline is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 7.9 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 girls’ 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 Rosaline 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,603 babies since 1880, Rosaline is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 568 babies (15%), again the second 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 Rosaline
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 Rosaline and names like it
- Compare Rosaline and RosalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRosaline peaked in 1928.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosaline since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Rosaline: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Rosaline.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rosaline alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.