Roshonda
Roshonda was last recorded in 2002, when 9 babies were given it; 1,069 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Roshonda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 38 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roshonda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roshonda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,907, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1976, the peak
Roshonda peaked in 1976, when 61 girls were given it, #1,632 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 9 | #10,907 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,826 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,847 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,615 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,453 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,749 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,470 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,643 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,345 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,216 | 13.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 24 | #4,341 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,019 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,492 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,374 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,848 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,709 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,614 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,347 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,559 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,416 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,318 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,904 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,118 | 29.5 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,078 | 30.5 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,227 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,294 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,632 | 41.6 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,954 | 31.6 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,872 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,906 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,500 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,291 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,917 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,430 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,708 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,623 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,184 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roshonda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roshonda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roshonda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roshonda, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,069 Americans ever recorded as Roshonda. The median Roshonda alive today is 45 years old; half are between 38 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 832 people named Roshonda (827 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,035 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 476 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 484 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 62 |
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 Roshonda born?
The states with the most babies named Roshonda are Texas, Illinois and Louisiana, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 35 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 27 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Roshonda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roshonda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1966 it was given 1.6 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 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 Roshonda 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 2,987 babies since 1880, Roshonda is the second most given (36% 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 Roshonda
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 Roshonda and names like it
- Compare Roshonda and RoshandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRoshonda peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roshonda since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Roshonda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Roshonda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.