How Many People Are Named Rosalyn?

17,049

people named Rosalyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 20,047 people in the US has this name

Based on 23,278 babies named Rosalyn in Social Security records from 1899 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,773

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#955

See the top 100

Peak Year

1955

422 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: ROZ-ə-lin
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of ROSALINE using the popular name suffix lyn.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rosalyn in English. Counting Rosalyn and these spellings together, about 29,180 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Rosalyn in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rosalyn alive today is about 45 years old, and 39% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 17 and 68 in 2025.

Under 30 5,576
32.7%
30 to 59 4,852
28.5%
60 and over 6,621
38.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rosalyn first appears in the records in 1899 and was given most often in 1955, to 422 babies. In 2025, 237 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1899 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rosalyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #412, in 1952. In 2025 it ranked #1,051.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,051
Best rank#412 (1952)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#469 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rosalyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rosalyn were born in California than in any other state: about 1,581 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rosalyn was given 1.9 times as often in Georgia, 1.8 times in New York and 1.4 times in Florida.

California 1,581
New York 1,399
Texas 1,143
Pennsylvania 921
Ohio 769
Illinois 767
Florida 729
Georgia 723
Michigan 594
North Carolina 475
Louisiana 402
New Jersey 397
Alabama 369
Tennessee 336
Missouri 312
South Carolina 311
Virginia 306
Indiana 303
Maryland 190
Massachusetts 176
Mississippi 174
Wisconsin 157
Minnesota 156
Washington 113
Arkansas 87
Arizona 86
Kentucky 73
Iowa 65
Colorado 48
Oklahoma 44
Connecticut 43
Utah 40
Kansas 36
District of Columbia 20
Oregon 15
Nebraska 8
Nevada 5
South Dakota 4
West Virginia 4

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