Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Roseline is a variant of Rosalind. Rosalind has been associated with German and English naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roseline is a variant of Rosalind. The history of Rosalind gives this family its wider story. Edmund Spenser used Rosalind for a shepherdess, and Shakespeare gave it to the heroine of As You Like It. The appealing rose association is a later reinterpretation of an older Germanic name, rather than its original formation.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Roseline through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,400
- 0 boys · 1,400 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 21
- #5,873 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +46%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 21 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,873 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 45.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,764 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roseline’s family of names
Roseline has a related form in Rosalind. In French usage, Roseline has a conventional equivalent in the English form Rosaline. In French usage, Roseline has a related form in ROSELYNE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Roseline
- Roseline FilionCanadian diverborn 1987
- Roseline KonyaNigerian academic and politician from Khana, Rivers State
- Roseline of VilleneuveCarthusian nun and Blessed1263–1329
- Roseline OsipitanYeye Oba of the Itori Kingdom
- Roseline VachettaFrench politicianborn 1951
- Roseline ÉloissaintHaitian footballerborn 1999
- Roseline LayoIvorian singer artistborn 1993
- Rosine DelamareFrench costume designer (1911-2013)
- Roseline FonkwaCameroonian movie producer and a businessborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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