Roosvelt
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roosvelt has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1933, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Roosvelt, 1975
1 in 604,000
Roosvelt over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Roosvelt?
Roosvelt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 312,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roosvelt sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roosvelt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roosvelts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roosvelt was born before 1938 — so the typical Roosvelt is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 86
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (111).
Is Roosvelt rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1933 (22)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Roosvelt
Roosvelt is not the most common spelling — Roosevelt is, with 91.8% against Roosvelt's 0.70%.
Where Roosvelt is used
Across 1910–2025, Roosvelt was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 532,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in —
- 2Mississippi1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Roosvelt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Roosvelt by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Roosvelt
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roosvelt
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.