Roselyn

Where Roselyn comes from

The dictionaries list Roselyn 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. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Peak, #591
    125 babies named Roselyn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,407.
  4. 1973
    Roselyn Sánchez born
    Puerto Rican actress, producer, writer, singer-songwriter, and model
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.
Namesakes
  • Roselyn Sánchez · Puerto Rican actress, producer, writer, singer-songwriter, and model, born 1973
  • Roselyn Ngissah · Nigerian-born Ghanaian actress
  • Roselyn Williams · American mathematician
  • Roselyn Silva · fashion designer

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.