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Rosevelt

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rosevelt has been given to 3,074 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 122 recorded.

Babies named Rosevelt, 1993

1 in 754,000

Rosevelt over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosevelt: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosevelt means

Rosevelt is a given name.

The naming story behind Rosevelt

Wikidata records Rosevelt as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q100396414, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,074 boys were recorded with the name Rosevelt between 1900 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1933; its best national rank was #293 in 1905.

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.

How common is Rosevelt?

Rosevelt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only
1 in 392,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosevelt sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosevelt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosevelts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosevelt was born before 1932 — so the typical Rosevelt is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (816).

Is Rosevelt 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 (122)
Years since peak
92
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#293
1905

Spellings of Rosevelt

Rosevelt is not the most common spelling — Roosevelt is, with 92.5% against Rosevelt's 7.5%.

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 Rosevelt is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosevelt was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 24,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,167
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 8,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 12,500
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 12,500
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Rosevelt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Rosevelt

People whose public names include Rosevelt, 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.

Rosevelt in other languages

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

Roosevelt

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

Rosevelt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#293
1905
Peak year
1933
122 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
3,074
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosevelt

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

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Names with a curve like Rosevelt

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

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Sibling names for Rosevelt

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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