Roseanna
Roseanna was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,253 among girls’ names; 5,881 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,270 Americans named Roseanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 37 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roseanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roseanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roseanna is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From Rose + Anna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roseanna?
#4,253 among girls’ names, 2025
Roseanna rose from #5,990 in 2015 to #4,253 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 21.2 per million.
275 babies in 1950, the peak
Roseanna peaked in 1950, when 275 girls were given it, #486 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,253 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,641 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,897 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,025 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,366 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,624 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,284 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,190 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,027 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,165 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (141)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,990 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,876 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,424 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,297 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,019 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,815 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,763 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,029 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,757 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,777 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,187 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,920 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,393 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,049 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,007 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,155 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,417 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,897 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,546 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,775 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,206 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,624 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,279 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,822 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 97 | #1,491 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,347 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,390 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 92 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 131 | #1,073 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 165 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 155 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,861 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,970 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,670 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,445 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,822 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,535 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,028 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,487 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,778 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 73 | #1,298 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,370 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,495 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,512 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 85 | #1,184 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 58 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 65 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 72 | #1,233 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 71 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 126 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 141 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 275 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1949 | 129 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,011 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,598 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,492 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,608 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,190 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,339 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,673 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 12 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 9 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 9 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 7 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 7 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 10 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #924 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roseanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roseanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 141 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roseanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roseanna, and how old are they?
4,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 5,881 Americans ever recorded as Roseanna. The median Roseanna alive today is 48 years old; half are between 37 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 4,141 people named Roseanna (4,134 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 165 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 888 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 375 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 339 |
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 Roseanna born?
The states with the most babies named Roseanna are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 598 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 420 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 179 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 163 | #1,655 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 69 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 67 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Roseanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roseanna is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 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 Roseanna 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 47,482 babies since 1880, Roseanna is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 137 babies (25%), the second 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 Roseanna
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 Roseanna and names like it
- Compare Roseanna and RosanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRoseanna peaked in 1950.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roseanna since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Roseanna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Roseanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Roseanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.