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Rozelle vs Rozlyn

American parents have registered 1,483 Rozlyns since 1880, against 530 Rozelles. Rozlyn is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rozelle against Rozlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rozelle 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 109 years in which either name was published, Rozlyn for 66 years and Rozelle for 43 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Rozelle Rozlyn
Total US births 5301,483
Most in one year 2374
Babies in 2025 533
Estimated living today 1301,400
Median age today 6914
Peak year 19152016
Best rank 1,523rd girls2,463rd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd4,265th
First recorded 19061942
Girls / boys 497 / 331,483 / 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 Rozelles alive today are over 69; half the Rozlyns are over 14. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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