Rosslyn
Rosslyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,923 among girls’ names; 790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosslyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosslyn?
#12,923 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosslyn fell from #4,385 in 2015 to #12,923 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 4.4 per million.
33 babies in 2015, the peak
Rosslyn peaked in 2015, when 33 girls were given it, #4,385 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,923 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,447 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,619 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,167 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,207 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,426 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,141 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,748 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,306 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,256 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,385 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,761 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,450 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,724 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,510 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,446 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,011 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,343 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,436 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,364 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,191 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,680 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,148 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,547 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,556 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,378 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,217 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,246 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,361 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,399 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,569 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,066 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,721 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,865 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,473 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,230 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,502 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,221 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,851 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,177 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,012 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,323 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,926 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,929 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,556 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,155 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,310 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,656 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,831 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,961 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,439 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,119 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,244 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,975 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,480 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,861 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,201 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,631 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,180 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,839 | 3.8 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,884 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,828 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,658 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,932 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,346 | 6.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,440 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,248 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,169 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosslyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosslyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosslyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosslyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 725 Americans named Rosslyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Rosslyn (689 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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).
How common is the spelling Rosslyn?
Rosslyn is a less common spelling of Roslyn: SSA has recorded 790 Rosslyn and 18,657 Roslyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,046 babies since 1880, Rosslyn is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 979 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Rosslyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Roslynn | 1,339 |
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 Rosslyn and names like it
- Compare Rosslyn and RoslynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Rosslyn.
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