girls:
337 births since 1902
#5379 (6th percentile)
boys:
37.6k births since 1895
#580 (87th percentile)
overall:
37.9k births since 1895
#1278 (83rd percentile)
The name Roosevelt is the #1,278 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,947 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 83.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #580 (87.4% percentile) for all time with 37,610 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #5,379 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 337 births since 1902.
Roosevelt first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1902 for girls).
The name Roosevelt has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roosevelt reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 75.2% percentile (ranked #130) with 1,184 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 1,843 births per million (ranked 65.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Roosevelt ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roosevelt reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #561) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roosevelt".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Roosevelt. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.9% confident that Roosevelt is pronounced as ROH-zuh-vehlt, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-zuh-VEHLT, at 26.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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