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Rosalene

Rosalene reached its high-water mark in 1938 at number 1,505, and has been recorded 504 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 210 Rosalenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rosalene

By the numbers

Total US births
504
Estimated living today
210
Median age today
72
Peak year
1938
Best rank
1,505th
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1916

How old the living Rosalenes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 504 babies given the name since 1916, about 210 are alive — 41 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1938

The most popular girls’ names the year Rosalene peaked:

All the names of 1938

Related names

Rosalene against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.