# Roosevelt (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/roosevelt/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Dutch |
| Meaning | “wild rose / poppy?”, “open country”, “field”, “rush reed”, “open land growing with rushes” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹoʊ.zə.vɛlt/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | Rosey |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 38,024 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 37,661 / 363 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From a Dutch name of a farm, either Rozenveld (one in Zeeland) or Ruiseveld (one in Brabant), from Middle Dutch; the former could be a compound of rose (“wild rose / poppy?”) + velt (“open country; field”) or like the latter of rusch (“rush reed”) + velt, “open land growing with rushes”.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 6 | 6,361 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6,620 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,920 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,948 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,851 |
| 2015 | 6 | 16,048 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,314 |
| 2017 | 14 | 8,205 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,356 |
| 2019 | 9 | 11,212 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,854 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10,170 |
| 2022 | 9 | 11,072 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,885 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,765 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 39 | 2,990 |
| 2012 | 48 | 2,589 |
| 2013 | 39 | 2,942 |
| 2014 | 48 | 2,572 |
| 2015 | 50 | 2,520 |
| 2016 | 55 | 2,382 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 45 | 2,740 |
| 2019 | 41 | 2,984 |
| 2020 | 36 | 3,192 |
| 2021 | 35 | 3,348 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,072 |
| 2023 | 30 | 3,787 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,169 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,362 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: رُوزِفِلْت
- Bulgarian: Ру́звелт
- Chinese: 羅斯福 /罗斯福
- Hebrew: רוזוולט
- Hindi: रोज़वेल्ट
- Japanese: ルーズベルト, ローズヴェルト, ルーズヴェルト
- Korean: 루스벨트, 루즈벨트
- Russian: Ру́звельт
- Ukrainian: Ру́звельт

## People named Roosevelt

- Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician
- James Roosevelt Bayley, Catholic bishop (1814–1877)
- Hound Dog Taylor, American Chicago blues guitarist and singer (1915–1975)
- Theodore Pell, American tennis player (1879-1967)
- T. R. Dunn, American basketball player-coach
- Rosey Grier, American football player, actor and writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.