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Roshni

#12,920 in 2025Girls' name

Light, brightness

Roshni has been given to 1,034 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #12,920 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Roshni, 2025

1 in 474,000

Roshni over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roshni: meaning, origin, and history

Light, brightness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roshni means

Roshni means “light, brightness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Roshni is used in Marathi and Hindi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,034 girls were recorded with the name Roshni between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,683 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,931 in 2020 to #12,920 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,540 in 2015 to #12,920 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.

How common is Roshni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,920
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roshni 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roshni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roshnis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roshni was born before 2000 — so the typical Roshni is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,034
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (327).

Is Roshni 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
+4,280
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−989
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,380
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.7%
Peak was 1998 (51)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,683
1998

Spellings of Roshni

Roshni is not the most common spelling — Rosina is, with 25.6% against Roshni's 4.8%.

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 Roshni is used

Across 1910–2025, Roshni was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 163,628 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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

Roshni around the world

Where Roshni 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1987–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Roshni by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,920
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 989
Best rank ever
#2,683
1998
Peak year
1998
51 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,034
Count in 2025
7

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Sibling names for Roshni

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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