Rosellen
Rosellen was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 795 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosellen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosellen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,128, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1949, the peak
Rosellen peaked in 1949, when 25 girls were given it, #1,958 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,128 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,205 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,047 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,675 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,998 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,214 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,172 | 4.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,394 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,558 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,730 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,754 | 4.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,100 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,892 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,924 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,342 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,414 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,692 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,890 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,200 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,267 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,478 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,876 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,395 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,945 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,714 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,028 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,744 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,363 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,434 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,189 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,554 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,042 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,958 | 14.6 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,995 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,869 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,575 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,979 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,744 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,333 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,188 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,511 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,020 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,370 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,139 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,081 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,492 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,689 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,983 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,380 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,219 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,403 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,470 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,985 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,482 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,208 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,451 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,748 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,644 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,353 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,887 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,485 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,563 | 11.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,748 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,798 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,199 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,862 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,729 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosellen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosellen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosellen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosellen, and how old are they?
An estimated 409 Americans named Rosellen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 528 people named Rosellen (528 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 468 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 20,454 babies since 1880, Rosellen is the fourth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 437 babies recorded by SSA was a Rosellen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rosellen
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 Rosellen and names like it
- Compare Rosellen and RoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sRosellen peaked in 1949.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosellen since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Rosellen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rosellen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.