Roshaun
Roshaun was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 457 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roshaun?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,654, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1981, the peak
Roshaun peaked in 1981, when 26 babies were given it (21 boys, #2,398 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,654 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,860 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,856 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 8 | #9,498 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #13,672 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,970 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #9,428 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 11 | #7,473 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #7,144 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 9 | #8,867 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | under 5 | 15 | #5,853 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 20 | #4,642 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 13 | #6,145 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #6,068 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 10 | #7,133 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 19 | #4,293 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #5,079 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 12 | #5,833 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,412 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,404 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,946 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 8 | #6,983 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,231 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 7 | #7,596 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,453 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,532 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 13 | #4,224 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,266 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,898 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,358 | 6 | #6,569 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 13 | #3,562 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 10 | #4,149 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,382 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,502 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,727 | 21 | #2,398 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,822 | 10 | #4,075 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,755 | 17 | #2,752 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,291 | 8 | #4,479 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,351 | 11 | #3,563 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,826 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,735 | |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,391 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Roshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 457 Americans recorded as Roshaun, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roshaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 439 Americans named Roshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 437 people named Roshaun (79 women and girls, 358 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 440 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,685 babies since 1880, Roshaun is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Roshaun (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 Roshaun
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Adrean | 1,216 |
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 Roshaun and names like it
- Compare Roshaun and RoshanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRoshaun peaked in 1981.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Roshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Roshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.