Rosellen — girls' name
795 babies named Rosellen in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Rosellen was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Rosellen in 1949 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rosellen
The Social Security Administration has registered 795 babies named Rosellen between 1915 and 2023, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rosellen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rosellen performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Rosellen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Rosellen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rosellen 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 795 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.
Rosellen at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rosellen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1915
- Peak year (1949)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 109 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
795 total births across 109 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1949 with 25 births in a single year.
Rosellen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 174 births that decade — 22% of Rosellen's all-time total
Rosellen decade highlights
- Peak decade 174 births
- Runner-up 172 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Rosellen's strongest decade
174 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Rosellen by state
Where Rosellen concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 1.3% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 7 | 0.9% |
10 of 795 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.3% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.