Girl

Rosalind

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,521
140 girls
2015
#1,536
rank
1950
#321
rank

Rosalind: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 140 in 2025. Its best rank was #292 in 1942.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #292 in 1942; #1,521 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rosalind in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,521 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #292.

Babies in 2025
140
Since 1880
27,136
Years on record
138

Babies named Rosalind, every year since 1880

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Girls

Rosalind: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 140 girls in 2025. Peak: #292 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 652 (1965).

About the name Rosalind

In 2025, 140 US girls were named Rosalind, making it the 1,521st most common girls’ name of the year, down 50 places from #1,471 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 149 girls named Rosalind in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #292, reached in 1942. The most girls given the name in a single year was 652, in 1965. For comparison, it was #1,536 in 2015 and #321 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Rosalind in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 7 babies. In all, 27,136 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 5,350 babies named Rosalind.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,655 US girls were named Rosalind; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 198. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,480 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Rosalind ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #771 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rosalinda (15,633 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rosiland, Roselind and Rosaland are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Rosiland (681), Roselind (402), Rosaland (344), Rosalynd (125), Roseland (122), Rosalinde (51), Rozalind (30), Rosilind (11), Rossalind (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Rosalind in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rosalind by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Wisconsin6#771—
Washington8#797—
Utah5#820—
Pennsylvania11#859#1,590
Massachusetts5#986#815
Colorado5#1,026—
Missouri5#1,053—
Tennessee6#1,101—
Illinois6#1,374#1,860
Michigan5#1,375—
New York8#1,629#1,123
Ohio5#1,654—
California13#1,725#1,647
Texas13#1,769#2,547

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025140#1,521——
2024149#1,471——
2023155#1,444——
2022157#1,435——
2021172#1,316——
2020153#1,431——
2019185#1,257——
2018184#1,260——
2017198#1,213——
2016162#1,431——
2015146#1,536——
2014101#1,979——
201391#2,102——
201274#2,492——
201162#2,831——
201049#3,352——
200936#4,258——
200834#4,533——
200749#3,419——
200640#3,843——
200535#4,099——
200445#3,384——
200348#3,118——
200240#3,454——
200139#3,477——
200038#3,505——
199942#3,141——
199840#3,162——
199745#2,766——
199648#2,620——
199543#2,833——
199449#2,575——
199349#2,566——
199267#2,052——
199173#1,927——
199079#1,825——
198980#1,712——
198877#1,683——
198779#1,589——
198690#1,433——
198597#1,358——
1984105#1,235——
198397#1,276——
1982104#1,255——
198193#1,349——
198099#1,295——
1979117#1,142——
1978155#917——
1977178#841——
1976202#729——
1975188#758——
1974184#761——
1973214#699——
1972266#600——
1971296#588——
1970368#520——
1969367#510——
1968369#505——
1967460#440——
1966505#413——
1965652#355——
1964543#417——
1963546#411——
1962634#372——
1961625#386——
1960649#375——
1959650#375——
1958585#382——
1957544#390——
1956571#367——
1955421#433——
1954466#401——
1953518#374——
1952500#372——
1951505#355——
1950571#321——
1949475#362——
1948499#348——
1947456#376——
1946444#361——
1945368#363——
1944337#384——
1943516#306——
1942537#292——
1941409#325——
1940368#332——
1939336#352——
1938264#416——
1937295#377——
1936196#459——
1935156#513——
1934118#609——
1933111#619——
1932125#590——
1931124#595——
1930130#610——
1929157#546——
1928151#577——
1927207#486——
1926203#490——
1925214#477——
1924243#447——
1923249#426——
1922238#435——
1921221#463——
1920210#469——
1919177#512——
1918201#474——
1917192#468——
1916190#463——
1915156#493——
1914163#419——
1913117#463——
191286#524——
191166#512——
191055#557——
190946#573——
190836#645——
190742#569——
190627#713——
190535#597——
190438#544——
190326#665——
190218#843——
190126#625——
190020#854——
189914#901——
189826#649——
189724#642——
189619#750——
189518#765——
189414#842——
189311#948——
18926#1,422——
189113#786——
189013#786——
188910#894——
18887#1,115——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).