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Rozell vs Rozlyn

American parents have registered 1,483 Rozlyns since 1880, against 936 Rozells. Rozlyn is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rozell 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 112 years in which either name was published, Rozell for 56 years and Rozlyn for 56 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

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

Side by side

  Rozell Rozlyn
Total US births 9361,483
Most in one year 2974
Babies in 2025 under 533
Estimated living today 3601,400
Median age today 6714
Peak year 19552016
Best rank 1,902nd boys2,463rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,265th
First recorded 19131942
Girls / boys 350 / 5861,483 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Rozells alive today are over 67; half the Rozlyns are over 14. That is 53 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Rozell and Rozlyn.