# Rosalyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rosalyn/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,278 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 23,278 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 387, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 159 | 1,431 |
| 2012 | 165 | 1,404 |
| 2013 | 196 | 1,232 |
| 2014 | 271 | 987 |
| 2015 | 223 | 1,138 |
| 2016 | 283 | 958 |
| 2017 | 298 | 901 |
| 2018 | 313 | 868 |
| 2019 | 312 | 860 |
| 2020 | 322 | 849 |
| 2021 | 332 | 833 |
| 2022 | 290 | 935 |
| 2023 | 252 | 1,007 |
| 2024 | 304 | 888 |
| 2025 | 237 | 1,051 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 2,025 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,639 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,549 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,920 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,681 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2020 | 11 | 2,300 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,692 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,488 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,271 |

## People named Rosalyn

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American medical physicist (1921-2011)
- Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (1914–2003)
- Rosalyn Higgins, British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937)
- Rosalyn Bryant, American sprinter
- Rosalyn Drexler, American artist (1926–2025)
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, American historian (1941-2018)
- Rosalyn Landor, British actress
- Roz Ryan, American actress

## 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.