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Rozelle vs Rozlynn

American parents have registered 741 Rozlynns since 1880, against 530 Rozelles. Rozlynn is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rozelle against Rozlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rozelle Rozlynn

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 83 years in which either name was published, Rozelle for 48 years and Rozlynn for 35 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Rozelle Rozlynn
Total US births 530741
Most in one year 2353
Babies in 2025 518
Estimated living today 130730
Median age today 6911
Peak year 19152015
Best rank 1,523rd girls3,129th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd6,325th
First recorded 19061971
Girls / boys 497 / 33741 / 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 Rozlynns are over 11. That is 58 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 Rozlynn.