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Roshan

#3,737 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Light, bright

Roshan has been given to 1,917 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,737 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 64 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Roshan, 2025

1 in 111,000

Roshan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Roshan over time

In 2025, Roshan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Roshan: meaning, origin, and history

Light, bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roshan means

Roshan means “light, bright”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,788 boys were recorded with the name Roshan between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,789 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,400 in 2020 to #3,737 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,497 in 2015 to #3,737 in 2025.

In the United States, 129 girls were recorded with the name Roshan between 1961 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1976; its best national rank was #5,701 in 1965.

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 Roshan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,737
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roshan 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roshan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roshans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roshan was born before 2005 — so the typical Roshan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,788
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (577).

Is Roshan 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
−65
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−337
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−240
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.9%
Peak was 2010 (64)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,789
2001

Spellings of Roshan

Roshan is not the most common spelling — Roman is, with 39.2% against Roshan's 0.67%.

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 Roshan is used

Across 1910–2025, Roshan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 176,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 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. Roshan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roshan around the world

Where Roshan 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
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • France
    1978–2024
    #5,272
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Roshan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,737
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 337
Best rank ever
#1,789
2001
Peak year
2010
64 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,788
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,701
1965
Peak year
1976
10 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
Under 5

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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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