Roshni
Roshni was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,920 among girls’ names; 1,034 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Roshni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roshni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roshni?
#12,920 among girls’ names, 2025
Roshni fell from #7,540 in 2015 to #12,920 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 4.4 per million.
51 babies in 1998, the peak
Roshni peaked in 1998, when 51 girls were given it, #2,683 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,920 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,200 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,480 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,287 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,918 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,931 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,221 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,655 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,206 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,909 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,540 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,168 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,970 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,134 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,794 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,377 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,853 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,517 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,067 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,907 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,676 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,881 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,575 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,954 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,529 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,574 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,694 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,683 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,602 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,430 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,269 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,682 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,485 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,486 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,134 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,689 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,775 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,006 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,095 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,333 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,413 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,690 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,836 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,141 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,905 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,253 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,065 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,471 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,353 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,474 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roshni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roshni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roshni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roshni, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,034 Americans ever recorded as Roshni. The median Roshni alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,044 people named Roshni (2,041 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 981 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 488 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 138 |
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 Roshni born?
The states with the most babies named Roshni are California, New Jersey and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 92 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Roshni 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,234 babies since 1880, Roshni is the most given (84% of them).
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 Roshni
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 Roshni and names like it
- Compare Roshni and RoshanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRoshni peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roshni since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Roshni.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Roshni alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.