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Rosalyn

Rosalyn: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“gentle horse”
Origin
Germanic
Say it
ROZ-ə-lin · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Usually treated as a variant of Rosalind, from Germanic elements meaning 'horse' and 'soft, tender'. Its spelling is also influenced by Rose-name forms.

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How popular is Rosalyn?

202491.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Rosalyn in 2024303

2024 rank#888 girls

Peak year1939

Total US babies since 188023,040

Rosalyn is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Rosalyn

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Roslyngentle horse; pretty rose association · English
  • Rosalindgentle horse · Germanic
  • Rosalynnpretty rose · English
  • Emmawhole, universal · Germanic
  • Ameliawork · Germanic
  • Ellaall, completely · Germanic
  • Alicenoble type · Germanic
  • Adelinenoble · Germanic

Rosalyn questions

What does the name Rosalyn mean?

Rosalyn means "gentle horse". It comes from Germanic. Usually treated as a variant of Rosalind, from Germanic elements meaning 'horse' and 'soft, tender'. Its spelling is also influenced by Rose-name forms.

Is Rosalyn a boy or girl name?

Rosalyn is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Rosalyn?

303 US babies were named Rosalyn in 2024. Its peak year was 1939.

How do you pronounce Rosalyn?

Rosalyn is usually pronounced ROZ-ə-lin.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.