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Roosevelt

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Roosevelt is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 91st, in 1905.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
260.00% of boys
Peak year
19331,207 births
Best rank
#91in 1905
Since 1895
37,637people given the name
Babies named Roosevelt, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

37,637 boys have been named Roosevelt in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1933, with 1,207 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 1,207 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 20%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Roosevelt
1890s57
1900s1,790
1910s2,768
1920s4,324
1930s7,482
1940s5,907
1950s5,675
1960s3,663
1970s2,161
1980s1,596
1990s1,019
2000s570
2010s471
2020s154

In 1933, its biggest year

Roosevelt was the 132nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1933 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1933.

Names that rose and fell with Roosevelt

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.