Rosalynn
Rosalynn was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,621 among girls’ names; 3,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,390 Americans named Rosalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosalynn is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosalynn?
#1,621 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosalynn fell from #1,598 in 2015 to #1,621 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 75.6 to 80.3 per million.
171 babies in 2020, the peak
Rosalynn peaked in 2020, when 171 girls were given it, #1,298 among girls’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,621 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 145 | #1,503 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,801 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,643 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 148 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 171 | #1,298 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,390 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,653 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,598 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,953 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,721 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,493 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,097 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,748 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,623 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,587 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,517 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,096 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,018 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,590 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,968 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,647 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,851 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,763 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,574 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,992 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,601 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,988 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,766 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,935 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,133 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,087 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,220 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,136 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,602 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,613 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,389 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,148 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,751 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,645 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,381 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,706 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 89 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,813 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,263 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,946 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,405 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,572 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,047 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,481 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,560 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,027 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,667 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,879 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,390 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,600 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosalynn, and how old are they?
3,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,533 Americans ever recorded as Rosalynn. The median Rosalynn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,314 people named Rosalynn (2,314 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 201 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 405 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 391 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
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 Rosalynn born?
The states with the most babies named Rosalynn are Ohio, Texas and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 16 | #638 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,770 | 0.8× |
| California | 8 | #2,452 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 8 | #944 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 7 | #798 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,175 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,586 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,277 | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,027 | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #617 | 0.1× |
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 Rosalynn 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 66,474 babies since 1880, Rosalynn is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 990 babies (13%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Rosalynn
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 Rosalynn and names like it
- Compare Rosalynn and RosalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRosalynn peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Rosalynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rosalynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.