Roseanna
Roseanna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 487th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1950275 births
- Best rank
- #487in 1950
- Since 1880
- 5,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,844 girls have been named Roseanna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 275 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1980s alone account for 18%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Roseanna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 63 | |
| 1890s | 47 | |
| 1900s | 76 | |
| 1910s | 211 | |
| 1920s | 405 | |
| 1930s | 312 | |
| 1940s | 429 | |
| 1950s | 1,022 | |
| 1960s | 622 | |
| 1970s | 582 | |
| 1980s | 1,042 | |
| 1990s | 430 | |
| 2000s | 250 | |
| 2010s | 207 | |
| 2020s | 146 |
In 1950, its biggest year
Roseanna was the 487th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1950 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Roseanna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosannapeak 1982
- Kathrynpeak 1952
- Kathrinepeak 1956
- Katherinepeak 1990
- Nenapeak 1963
- Cathrynpeak 1956
- Margaritapeak 1957
- Sabrapeak 1961
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.