Roshawn — boys' name

What the Data Says About Roshawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 931 babies named Roshawn between 1968 and 2023, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Roshawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Roshawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 422 additional births since 1965.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Roshawn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Roshawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Roshawn in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Roshawn 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 931 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.