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Rozella vs Rozlyn

American parents have registered 2,762 Rozellas since 1880, against 1,483 Rozlyns. But in 2025 it was Rozlyn that was commoner, 33 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rozella against Rozlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rozella Rozlyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Rozella for 89 years and Rozlyn for 50 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Rozella Rozlyn
Total US births 2,7621,483
Most in one year 8774
Babies in 2025 under 533
Estimated living today 7501,400
Median age today 7314
Peak year 19272016
Best rank 776th girls2,463rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,265th
First recorded 18811942
Girls / boys 2,762 / 01,483 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rozellas alive today are over 73; half the Rozlyns are over 14. That is 59 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rozella and Rozlyn.