Roshan
Roshan was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,737 among boys’ names; 1,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Roshan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roshan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roshan?
#3,737 among boys’ names, 2025
Roshan fell from #3,497 in 2015 to #3,737 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 16.7 to 17.6 per million.
64 babies in 2010, the peak
Roshan peaked in 2010, when 64 boys were given it, #2,114 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,737 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,672 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,545 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,395 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,798 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,400 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,971 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,878 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,880 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,825 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,497 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,650 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,833 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,477 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,139 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,114 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,224 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,253 | 28.9 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,205 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,121 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,419 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 63 | #1,947 | 31.7 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,196 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,990 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,789 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,911 | 28.0 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,919 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 50 | #1,949 | 26.2 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,487 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,642 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,998 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,207 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,755 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,978 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,596 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,603 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,592 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,835 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,536 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,346 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,801 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,221 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,067 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,682 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,257 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,514 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,655 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,646 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,163 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,667 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,112 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roshan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,917 Americans recorded as Roshan, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roshan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roshan, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,917 Americans ever recorded as Roshan. The median Roshan alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,708 people named Roshan (703 women and girls, 3,005 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 403 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 857 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 471 |
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 Roshan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,956 | 1.1× |
Where Roshan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roshan is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.1 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 boys’ 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 Roshan 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,685 babies since 1880, Roshan is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), again the 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 Roshan
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 Roshan and names like it
- Compare Roshan and RoshaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRoshan peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roshan since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Roshan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Roshan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.