Roshan
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 93.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,788since 1974
Roshan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,605 | 31 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | — | #3,740 | 29 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,899 | 27 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,848 | 42 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | — | #3,431 | 32 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,622 | 46 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,804 | 41 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,203 | 60 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,237 | 59 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,102 | 62 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,399 | 48 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,934 | 63 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,180 | 50 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,974 | 56 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,777 | 63 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,895 | 55 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | — | #2,449 | 33 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | — | #2,181 | 37 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | — | #2,545 | 25 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | — | #2,710 | 18 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,159 | 24 | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Roshan! It came in at #3,837, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Roshan is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#577 · 1 in 5,349
- Massachusetts#593 · 1 in 7,115
- Michigan#975 · 1 in 11,687
- Illinois#1,075 · 1 in 13,369
- New York#1,641 · 1 in 22,317
Best ever in a state: #564 in New Jersey, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #577 | 9 | 1 in 5,349 |
| Massachusetts | #593 | 5 | 1 in 7,115 |
| Michigan | #975 | 5 | 1 in 11,687 |
| Illinois | #1,075 | 6 | 1 in 13,369 |
| New York | #1,641 | 5 | 1 in 22,317 |
| California | #1,728 | 7 | 1 in 34,955 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Roshan
- 53 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #3,658)
- 314 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #3,658)
- 227 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2001 at #1,777 (63 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,979 boys born in 2010 were named Roshan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,777 in 2001, was only 1 in 30,839 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all boys named Roshan (577) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1976, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 66 | #2,568 (1979) | #3,096 |
| 1980s | 220 | #2,017 (1983) | #2,420 |
| 1990s | 284 | #1,931 (1998) | #2,752 |
| 2000s | 577 | #1,777 (2001) | #2,089 |
| 2010s | 450 | #2,100 (2010) | #2,790 |
| 2020s | 191 | #3,344 (2022) | #3,528 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Roshan in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 30,839 of them was named Roshan, which outranked 85.6% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,763Lyndon64
- #1,763Terell64
- #1,763Tremayne64
- #1,777Roshan63
- #1,777Akeem63
- #1,777Akshay63
- #1,777Alen63
- #1,800Antione62
- #1,800Aydin62
- #1,800Cleveland62
Tied with 22 names at #1,777; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.