Roshunda — girls' name
589 babies named Roshunda in U.S. Social Security records since 1965, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Roshunda was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Roshunda in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Roshunda
The Social Security Administration has registered 589 babies named Roshunda between 1965 and 1995, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Roshunda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 40 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Roshunda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Roshunda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 103 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Roshunda in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Roshunda 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 589 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.
Roshunda at a glance
Last recorded 1995Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Roshunda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–1965
- Peak year (1980)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1995.
589 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 40 births in a single year.
Roshunda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 243 births that decade — 41% of Roshunda's all-time total
Roshunda decade highlights
- Peak decade 243 births
- Runner-up 243 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Roshunda's strongest decade
243 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Roshunda by state
Where Roshunda concentrates geographically — total births since 1965
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 103 | 17.5% |
| #2 | Mississippi | | 32 | 5.4% |
| #3 | Louisiana | | 20 | 3.4% |
| #4 | Arkansas | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #5 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #6 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #7 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.8% |
103 of 589 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 17.5% of nationwide
- Mississippi 5.4% of nationwide
- Louisiana 3.4% of nationwide
- Arkansas 1.0% of nationwide
- Alabama 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 17.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1965–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.