Roosevelt
Roosevelt reached its high-water mark in 1933 at number 132, and has been recorded 38,024 times in all. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 16,000 Roosevelts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roosevelt boys named Roosevelt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,024
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1933
- Best rank
- 132nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 363 / 37,661
How old the living Roosevelts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,024 babies given the name since 1895, about 16,000 are alive — 43 in every hundred. Roughly 880 of them are children and 8,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From a Dutch name of a farm, either Rozenveld (one in Zeeland) or Ruiseveld (one in Brabant), from Middle Dutch; the former could be a compound of rose (“wild rose / poppy?”) + velt (“open country; field”) or like the latter of rusch (“rush reed”) + velt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Roosevelts
- Roosevelt Skerrit (born 1972)Prime Minister of Dominica
People named Roosevelt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roosevelt is most common
Across the country Roosevelt is recorded 9.90 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Roosevelts are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1933
The most popular boys’ names the year Roosevelt peaked:
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Roosevelt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.