In 2025, 151 US girls were named Roslyn, making it the 1,433rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 67 places from #1,366 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 167 girls named Roslyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #397, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 376, in 1956. For comparison, it was #1,312 in 2015 and #490 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roslyn in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 18,657 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,941 babies named Roslyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,734 US girls were named Roslyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,644 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Roslyn ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #560 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rosalyn (23,278 babies since 1880), Roselyn (14,556 babies since 1880) and Rozlyn (1,483 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roslynn, Rozlynn and Ruslan are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.