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Rozalyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
ROZ-a-lin
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Rozalyn is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “horse + soft, tender”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Rozalyn mean?

Germanic: variant of Rosalyn, from Rosalind

“horse + soft, tender”

Rosalind, the root name, is the witty heroine of Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Is Rozalyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Rozalyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Rozalyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 49% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Rozalyn, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1946.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Rozalyn than any year since 2006.

Half of all the girls named Rozalyn in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 401 girls in the US were given Rozalyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #705, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

1946Busiest: 40 in 20132025
Rozalyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202416#6,928
202318#6,404
202223#5,462
202123#5,394
202028#4,646
201929#4,652
201833#4,236
201731#4,475
201630#4,631
201528#4,852
201432#4,453
201340#3,776
201235#4,214
201122#5,932
201032#4,493
200923#5,889
200823#5,952
200723#5,891
200612#9,282
200515#7,495
200421#5,740
20035#15,777
200213#7,810
20016#13,514
20007#11,794
19998#10,338
19986#12,420
199712#7,278
199612#7,125
19956#11,778
19946#11,771
19938#9,552
19926#11,730
19915#13,139
199010#7,874
19897#9,675
198812#6,272
198710#6,783
198610#6,609
19855#10,672
198410#6,290
198313#5,147
19826#9,235
19810–
198010#6,318
19797#8,059
197810#5,957
19777#7,565
19768#6,609
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19705#7,994
196911#4,417
19680–
19670–
19660–
196510#4,201
19640–
19638#4,895
19620–
19615#6,566
19609#4,436
19590–
19580–
19578#4,535
19569#4,160
19550–
19548#4,276
19536#5,039
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19487#4,203
19475#5,293
19465#4,958

Nicknames for Rozalyn

Names like Rozalyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Rozalyn

Names related to Rozalyn

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Rozalyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rozalyn, updated 20 October 2026.