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Rozella vs Rozena

American parents have registered 2,762 Rozellas since 1880, against 488 Rozenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rozella against Rozena, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rozella Rozena

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, Rozella for 108 years and Rozena for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Rozella Rozena
Total US births 2,762488
Most in one year 8718
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 750190
Median age today 7368
Peak year 19271934
Best rank 776th girls1,834th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18811913
Girls / boys 2,762 / 0488 / 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 Rozellas alive today are over 73; half the Rozenas are over 68. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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