Roisin

Where Roisin comes from

The dictionaries list Roisin as a given name — a female given name from Irish, anglicized form of Róisín, an Irish diminutive of Rose — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #4,866 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #2,691
    64 babies named Roisin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, anglicized form of Róisín, an Irish diminutive of Rose.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.