Roselle
Roselle was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,975 among girls’ names; 2,090 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roselle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roselle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roselle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roselle?
#9,975 among girls’ names, 2025
Roselle fell from #6,675 in 2015 to #9,975 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.2 per million.
52 babies in 1919, the peak
Roselle peaked in 1919, when 52 girls were given it, #1,005 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,975 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,525 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,404 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,436 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,911 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,868 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,281 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,292 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,752 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,323 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,675 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,276 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,675 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,090 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,379 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,659 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,437 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,628 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,503 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,523 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,012 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,046 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,911 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,594 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,322 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,602 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,498 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,546 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,014 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,027 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,105 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,848 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,565 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,028 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,729 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,865 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,814 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,964 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,712 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,064 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,413 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,142 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,923 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,377 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,667 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,117 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,675 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,347 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,834 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,131 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,733 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,895 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,180 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,376 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,355 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,474 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,450 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,595 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,181 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,737 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,932 | 16.4 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,890 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,827 | 17.4 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,392 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,987 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,576 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,389 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,302 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,413 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,055 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,175 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,431 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,012 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,574 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,270 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,137 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,467 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,083 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,388 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,782 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,637 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,573 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,246 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,651 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,826 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,593 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,741 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,330 | 29.1 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,802 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,192 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,234 | 33.8 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,553 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,613 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,157 | 37.0 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,601 | 23.2 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,098 | 40.6 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,457 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,405 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,539 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 52 | #1,005 | 46.0 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,355 | 28.5 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,217 | 33.3 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,164 | 36.4 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,220 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,056 | 43.3 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,351 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,342 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,772 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,159 | 40.4 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,272 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,077 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,361 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,914 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,397 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,353 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,756 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,419 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,902 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,157 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,558 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,927 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,757 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,188 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,674 | 22.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roselle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roselle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roselle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roselle, and how old are they?
An estimated 997 Americans named Roselle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 29 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,595 people named Roselle (1,578 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
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 Roselle born?
The states with the most babies named Roselle are New York, Illinois and California, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 171 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 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 Roselle 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 118,611 babies since 1880, Roselle is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,232 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Roselle
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 Roselle and names like it
- Compare Roselle and RosalieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRoselle peaked in 1919.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roselle since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Roselle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roselle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.