Roseanne
Roseanne was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,677 among girls’ names; 7,307 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,520 Americans named Roseanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 47 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roseanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roseanne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roseanne is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.”
Also “Alternative form of Roseanne; A female given name.”
From Rose + Anne.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roseanne?
#5,677 among girls’ names, 2025
Roseanne rose from #10,020 in 2015 to #5,677 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 13.7 per million.
228 babies in 1950, the peak
Roseanne peaked in 1950, when 228 girls were given it, #549 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,677 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,878 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,617 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,225 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,884 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,922 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,210 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,693 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,204 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,166 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,020 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,756 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,789 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,538 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,912 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,431 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,920 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,981 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,137 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,499 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,905 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,083 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,891 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,770 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,452 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,362 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,042 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,538 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,031 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,017 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,060 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 126 | #1,254 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,517 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,612 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,498 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,518 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,290 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,442 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,622 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,513 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,676 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,522 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 78 | #1,349 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,338 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 78 | #1,312 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 93 | #1,211 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 108 | #1,058 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 113 | #983 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 98 | #1,043 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 118 | #938 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 137 | #857 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 159 | #832 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 145 | #873 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 171 | #800 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 183 | #777 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 161 | #823 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 163 | #802 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 166 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 170 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 142 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 165 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 159 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 172 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 166 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 202 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 228 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 195 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 149 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 160 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 142 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 132 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 141 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 180 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 90 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 92 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 70 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 70 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 61 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 52 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 44 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,091 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,184 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,497 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,093 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,908 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roseanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roseanne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roseanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roseanne, and how old are they?
5,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 7,307 Americans ever recorded as Roseanne. The median Roseanne alive today is 63 years old; half are between 47 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 7,426 people named Roseanne (7,423 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,903 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 473 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 969 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 161 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 177 |
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 Roseanne born?
The states with the most babies named Roseanne are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,665 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 853 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 595 | #3,436 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 394 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 230 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 214 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 196 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 191 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 111 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Roseanne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roseanne is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 2.7 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 Roseanne 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 43,020 babies since 1880, Roseanne is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 121 babies (18%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roseanne
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 Roseanne and names like it
- Compare Roseanne and RosanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRoseanne peaked in 1950.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roseanne since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Roseanne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roseanne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.