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Rosaline

#2,192 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rosalind

Rosaline has been given to 3,984 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #2,192 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Rosaline, 2025

1 in 39,000

Rosaline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosaline: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rosalind

Latin

What Rosaline means

Rosaline is a variant of Rosalind.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rosaline → Rosalind. The family’s meaning is “horse + soft; weak, tender”, recorded in English with the source elements hrussą and linþaz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

An elaborate form of Rosalie, or a simplified form of Rosalind.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rosaline (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosaline is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosalind and Rosalie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,984 girls were recorded with the name Rosaline between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1928; its best national rank was #763 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,384 in 2020 to #2,192 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,475 in 2015 to #2,192 in 2025.

How common is Rosaline?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,192
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosaline sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosaline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosalines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosaline was born before 1945 — so the typical Rosaline is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,846
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (754).

Is Rosaline 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
+813
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,192
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,283
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.6%
Peak was 1928 (88)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#763
1928

Spellings of Rosaline

Rosaline is not the most common spelling — Rosalie is, with 38.0% against Rosaline's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rosaline is used

Across 2016–2025, Rosaline was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 37,512 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Rosaline around the world

Where Rosaline ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–1983
    #529
    in 1983
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,270
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rosaline

People whose public names include Rosaline, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rosaline in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rosaline. Linked forms have their own page here.

RosalynRosalinaRoselineRose-Line

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rosaline by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,192
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,192
Best rank ever
#763
1928
Peak year
1928
88 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,984
Count in 2025
85

Names similar to Rosaline

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RoselineRosalynnRosamondRoselynnRosalinaRoseannaRoseanneRosalbaRosaleenRosariaRosauraKarolineJoselineRosineRoselleMadalineSunshineEmmelineCharlineJazzmineRosaliaRosarioCoralineRoselee

Names with a curve like Rosaline

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rosaline, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VitaNellaWynonaAugustineEvelineNovellaRosariaHellenBethelLeonoraEnolaZita

Sibling names for Rosaline

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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