Roselynn
Roselynn was given to 146 girls in 2025, #1,476 among girls’ names; 2,985 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,890 Americans named Roselynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roselynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roselynn?
#1,476 among girls’ names, 2025
Roselynn rose from #1,932 in 2015 to #1,476 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 58.8 to 90.8 per million.
198 babies in 2019, the peak
Roselynn peaked in 2019, when 198 girls were given it, #1,191 among girls’ names. The 146 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 142 | #1,523 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,523 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 157 | #1,436 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,397 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 159 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 198 | #1,191 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,410 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,487 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,659 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,932 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,835 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,132 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,111 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,719 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,582 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,289 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,256 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,322 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,243 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,178 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,733 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,857 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,729 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,763 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,733 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,132 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,910 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,421 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,470 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,539 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,638 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,873 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,411 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,303 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,008 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,672 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,487 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,829 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,890 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,253 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,918 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,567 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,872 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,801 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,118 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,331 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,374 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,187 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,170 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,551 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,637 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,876 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roselynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roselynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roselynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roselynn, and how old are they?
2,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,985 Americans ever recorded as Roselynn. The median Roselynn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,736 people named Roselynn (1,736 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 107 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 188 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 635 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,830 |
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 Roselynn born?
The states with the most babies named Roselynn are California, Texas and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Roselynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Roselynn?
Roselynn is a less common spelling of Roselyn: SSA has recorded 2,985 Roselynn and 14,556 Roselyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,933 babies since 1880, Roselynn is the fifth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 146 of their 964 babies (15%), the fourth 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 Roselynn
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 Roselynn and names like it
- Compare Roselynn and RoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRoselynn peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roselynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Roselynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Roselynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.