Rosalind
Rosalind is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 148 births. Its best rank was 292nd, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1480.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1965652 births
- Best rank
- #292in 1942
- Since 1888
- 26,995people given the name
The story in the numbers
26,995 girls have been named Rosalind in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1965, with 652 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosalind | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 158 | |
| 1900s | 314 | |
| 1910s | 1,403 | |
| 1920s | 2,093 | |
| 1930s | 1,855 | |
| 1940s | 4,409 | |
| 1950s | 5,331 | |
| 1960s | 5,350 | |
| 1970s | 2,168 | |
| 1980s | 922 | |
| 1990s | 535 | |
| 2000s | 404 | |
| 2010s | 1,252 | |
| 2020s | 784 |
In 1965, its biggest year
Rosalind was the 355th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1965 were Lisa, Mary, Karen, Kimberly and Susan. See all of 1965.
Names that rose and fell with Rosalind
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anitapeak 1957
- Bernadettepeak 1958
- Rayepeak 1956
- Maryellenpeak 1960
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Vandapeak 1960
- Gwendolynpeak 1953
- Lornapeak 1957
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.