Given name & surname
Roslin
“a little red-haired boy”
Roslin is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a little red-haired boy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a little red-haired boy.”
Where it comes from
Roslin 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 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roslin 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
Roslin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 248
- 0 boys · 248 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #7,829 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +42%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,829 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 374 as a first name in 2020; 147 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roslin’s family of names
Roslin has a related form in Rosalind. Roslin has a related form in Roslyn. Roslin has a related form in Rozlyn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Roslynvariant
- Rosalindvariant
- Rozlynvariant
- Rosslynvariant
- Rozlinvariant
- Rosselinvariant
- Rosslinlikely variant
- Rozlingvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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