Roslyn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: modern name; possibly from Rose + Lyn
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Roslyn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.5K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 6.5Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roslyn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
42,079 named Rosalie, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)modern name; possibly from Rose + Lyn
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Roslyn, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Roslyn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 42,079as Rosalie | 1 in 7.9K | 42K | Roslyn | 379 |
| AU Australia | #523 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 76 | Roslyn | 185 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Roslyn | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 90 | Roslyn | 144 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Roslyn | 42 |
| JM Jamaica | #156 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Roslyn | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 178as Rosaline | 1 in 4.2K | 178 | — | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 69 | 1 in 74K | 69 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 77 | — | 3 |
42,079 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling rosalie. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Roslyn Sulcasb. 1901USAmerican dance critic
- Amaranth Ehrenhaltb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter (1928–2021)
- Marie Bashirb. 1930AUnot in their usual nameAustralian governor, educator and psychiatrist (1930–2026)
- Roslyn Swartzmanb. 1931CACanadian painter (1931–2023)
- Ros Kellyb. 1948AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Roslyn Gentleb. 1950AUAustralian actress
- Roslyn Kindb. 1951USAmerican actress, singer, and songwriter
- Roslyn Schwartzb. 1951CABritish writer and animator
- Roslyn McLeodb. 1976CACanadian rower
- Roslyn Walkerb. 1981GBBritish escapologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,225 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 151 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 115 | #479 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 77 | #40 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1967 | 76 | #98 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 69 | #2,710 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1969 | 43 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36 | #2,225 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 3 | #790 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1990 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Roslyn a male or female name?
- Roslyn is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Roslyn mean, and where does it come from?
- modern name; possibly from Rose + Lyn Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Roslyn?
- In the etymology graph, Rose, Rosalinda and Rosalina are forms of the same name in other languages; Roz is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Roslyn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Rosalie, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Roslyn?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 69 people named Roslyn, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Roslyn compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Roslyn is the 156th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roslynThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roslyn” — the 156th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.