Roshani
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roshani has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1992, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Roshani, 2006
1 in 659,000
Roshani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Roshani?
Roshani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roshani sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roshani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roshanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roshani was born before 1994 — so the typical Roshani is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 75.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 75.6% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Roshani 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 1992 (9)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Roshani
Roshani is not the most common spelling — Roseann is, with 51.6% against Roshani's 0.15%.
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.
Roshani around the world
Where Roshani 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 & Wales1996–2008#5,545in 2008
- South Australia1981–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Roshani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Roshani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roshani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.