Roswell
Roswell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 394th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191948 births
- Best rank
- #394in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,404people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,404 boys have been named Roswell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roswell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 88 | |
| 1900s | 38 | |
| 1910s | 276 | |
| 1920s | 302 | |
| 1930s | 168 | |
| 1940s | 154 | |
| 1950s | 103 | |
| 1960s | 75 | |
| 1970s | 37 | |
| 1980s | 37 | |
| 1990s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 22 | |
| 2010s | 20 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Roswell was the 985th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Roswell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Frenchpeak 1915
- Worthpeak 1918
- Juniuspeak 1920
- Spurgeonpeak 1918
- Parkpeak 1923
- Omerpeak 1918
- Dowpeak 1962
- Ludwigpeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.