girls:
18.3k births since 1891
#1094 (81st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1929
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
18.3k births since 1891
#1899 (75th percentile)
The name Roslyn is the #1,899 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,335 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,094 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 18,325 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1929.
Roslyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1929 for boys). Birth data for Roslyn is available in 125 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Roslyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Roslyn reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 41.0% percentile (ranked #441) with 183 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 243 births per million (ranked 40.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Roslyn ranks #799 for girls (15.6% percentile) with 87 births per million, which is 35.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Roslyn reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roslyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Roslyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Roslyn is pronounced as RAHZ-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROHZ-lihn, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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