Rosalyn — #888 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rosalyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,040 babies named Rosalyn between 1899 and 2024, spanning 126 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rosalyn currently holds the #888 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 422 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rosalyn performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 3,779 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Rosalyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,615 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Rosalyn in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rosalyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 23,040 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.