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Roselyn

#979 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rosalyn

Roselyn has been given to 14,556 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #979 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 459 recorded.

Babies named Roselyn, 2025

1 in 12,800

Roselyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roselyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rosalyn

Latin

What Roselyn means

Roselyn is a variant of Rosalyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Roselyn is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosalyn and Rosaline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,556 girls were recorded with the name Roselyn between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 459 in 2018; its best national rank was #593 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #728 in 2020 to #979 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #735 in 2015 to #979 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Roselyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,800
259 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,210
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#979
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roselyn 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,873 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roselyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roselyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roselyn was born before 2004 — so the typical Roselyn is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,930
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (3,615).

Is Roselyn 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
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−244
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.4%
Peak was 2018 (459)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#593
1931

Spellings of Roselyn

Roselyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 37.9% against Roselyn's 4.9%.

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 Roselyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Roselyn was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 1,639 girls, against 1 in 4,074 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

361 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 1,639
  2. 2California1 in 2,857
  3. 3Indiana1 in 3,125
  4. 4Kansas1 in 3,226
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 3,226
  6. 6Texas1 in 3,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 3,448
  8. 8Maryland1 in 3,704

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.

Geographically, Roselyn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 30% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Roselyn around the world

Where Roselyn 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
    2000–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–1978
    #520
    in 1978
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Roselyn

People whose public names include Roselyn, 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.

Roselyn in other languages

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

RoslynRoselineRoselyne

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

Roselyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 251
Best rank ever
#593
1931
Peak year
2018
459 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,556
Count in 2025
259

Names similar to Roselyn

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

RosalynRoslynRosslynRosannaRosanneRoseannRosellaRosaleeRosarioRosaliaRosilynRosettaRosselynRosalindJacklynRoseanneJoselynRositaBraelynRosalindaRosalbaAddilynRoseannaRosalina

Names with a curve like Roselyn

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

MariannaMercyVivienLucieAmaliaCamillaEliaLeilaLoreleiMinaAnnaleeCordelia

Sibling names for Roselyn

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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