Rosaline
Rosaline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 55 births. Its best rank was 763rd, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 550.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192888 births
- Best rank
- #763in 1928
- Since 1891
- 3,898people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,898 girls have been named Rosaline in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 88 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosaline | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 26 | |
| 1900s | 107 | |
| 1910s | 436 | |
| 1920s | 754 | |
| 1930s | 479 | |
| 1940s | 336 | |
| 1950s | 341 | |
| 1960s | 266 | |
| 1970s | 195 | |
| 1980s | 116 | |
| 1990s | 100 | |
| 2000s | 103 | |
| 2010s | 344 | |
| 2020s | 295 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Rosaline was the 763rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Rosaline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vivianpeak 1920
- Carmellapeak 1922
- Evelynpeak 1921
- Carmelapeak 1923
- Vitapeak 1921
- Rosariapeak 1923
- Millicentpeak 1927
- Marcellapeak 1922
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.