Meaning not yet researched.
Roshan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,793 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,793 in 2001; #3,738 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Roshan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,738 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,793.
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Roshan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,793 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 64 (2010).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Roshan, making it the 3,738th most common boys’ name of the year, down 64 places from #3,674 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 31 boys named Roshan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,793, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 2010. For comparison, it was #3,498 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roshan in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 1,917 US babies have been given the name, 6.7% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 577 babies named Roshan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 345 US boys were named Roshan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Roshaun, Roshun and Roshane are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Roshaun (457), Roshun (85), Roshane (23), Rushon (16), Rushan (6), Rosheen (6), Rushun (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.
No nicknames listed for Roshan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,738 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,674 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,547 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,291 | 35 | #3,397 |
| 2021 | — | — | 29 | #3,802 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,402 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,974 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,879 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,881 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,870 | 43 | #2,826 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,498 |
| 2014 | — | — | 46 | #2,652 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,835 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,478 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,140 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,115 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,225 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,254 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,205 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,122 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,423 |
| 2004 | — | — | 63 | #1,951 |
| 2003 | — | — | 50 | #2,200 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,994 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,793 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,915 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,923 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,053 | 50 | #1,952 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,491 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,648 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,379 | 24 | #3,003 |
| 1994 | — | — | 37 | #2,212 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,072 | 26 | #2,761 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,986 | 23 | #2,984 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,603 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,713 | 26 | #2,608 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,598 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,840 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,952 | 22 | #2,540 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,571 | 24 | #2,348 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,804 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,222 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,950 | 26 | #2,068 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,972 | 18 | #2,683 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,258 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,515 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,494 | 18 | #2,656 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,647 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,352 | 13 | #3,164 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,937 | 10 | #3,669 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,114 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,012 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,391 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,337 | — | — |
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).