Roswell
Roswell was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,468 among boys’ names; 1,411 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roswell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roswell?
#10,468 among boys’ names, 2025
Roswell entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,468 in 2025.
48 babies in 1919, the peak
Roswell peaked in 1919, when 48 boys were given it, #985 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,468 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,195 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,578 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,034 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,942 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,901 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,851 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #12,381 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,645 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,161 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,943 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,943 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,776 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,802 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,754 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,820 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,416 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,453 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,949 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,056 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 48 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 22 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,400 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,316 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,208 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,370 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,187 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 9 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 7 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 17 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,082 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,212 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 14 | #570 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 20 | #394 | 0.20 |
| 1886 | 9 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 8 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 7 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roswell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roswell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roswell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roswell, and how old are they?
An estimated 378 Americans named Roswell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 37 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 499 people named Roswell (10 women and girls, 489 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 416 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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.
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 Roswell born?
The states with the most babies named Roswell are New York, Georgia and Michigan, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 150 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Roswell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roswell is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Roswell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roswell
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 Roswell and names like it
- Compare Roswell and FrenchBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRoswell peaked in 1919.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roswell since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Roswell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roswell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.