Rosalyn

Where Rosalyn comes from

The dictionaries list Rosalyn as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1899
    First appearance
    #1,278 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Rosalyn Tureck born
    American pianist and harpsichordist
  3. 1921
    Rosalyn Sussman Yalow born
    American medical physicist
  4. 1952
    Peak, #413
    417 babies named Rosalyn — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #748.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.
Namesakes
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow · American medical physicist, 1921–2011
  • Rosalyn Tureck · American pianist and harpsichordist, 1914–2003
  • Rosalyn Fairbank · South African tennis player, born 1960
  • Rosalyn Higgins · British barrister, judge and scholar, born 1937
  • Rosalyn Bryant · American sprinter, born 1956

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.