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Rozella vs Rozlynn

American parents have registered 2,762 Rozellas since 1880, against 741 Rozlynns. But in 2025 it was Rozlynn that was commoner, 18 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rozella Rozlynn

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 124 years in which either name was published, Rozella for 92 years and Rozlynn for 32 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Rozella Rozlynn
Total US births 2,762741
Most in one year 8753
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 750730
Median age today 7311
Peak year 19272015
Best rank 776th girls3,129th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,325th
First recorded 18811971
Girls / boys 2,762 / 0741 / 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 Rozlynns are over 11. That is 62 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: Rozella and Rozlynn.