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Roz

#12,926 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Rosalind

Roz has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #12,926 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1946, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Roz, 2025

1 in 474,000

Roz over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roz: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Rosalind

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roz means

Roz is a short form of Rosalind.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Roz is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹɑz/ and /ˈɹɒz/ for Roz.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Roz → Rosalind. The family’s meaning is “horse + soft; weak, tender”, recorded in English with the source elements hrussą and linþaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosalind.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Roz between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1946; its best national rank was #4,341 in 1946.

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 Roz?

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
#12,926
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roz 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 Roz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rozs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roz was born before 1957 — so the typical Roz is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
57
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1950s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Roz 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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Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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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
100.0%
Peak was 1946 (7)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,341
1946

Roz around the world

Where Roz 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
    2013–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Roz by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,926
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,341
1946
Peak year
1946
7 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Roz

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

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Sibling names for Roz

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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