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Rozalyn vs Rozlyn

American parents have registered 1,483 Rozlyns since 1880, against 870 Rozalyns. Rozlyn is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rozalyn against Rozlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rozalyn Rozlyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Rozlyn for 59 years and Rozalyn for 16 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Rozalyn Rozlyn
Total US births 8701,483
Most in one year 4074
Babies in 2025 1233
Estimated living today 8401,400
Median age today 1514
Peak year 20132016
Best rank 3,778th girls2,463rd girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd4,265th
First recorded 19461942
Girls / boys 870 / 01,483 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rozalyn and Rozlyn.