Roz
Roz is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Roz
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Roz is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Roz
Roz first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1946, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1946: 7 births, good for #3,994 nationwide. About 58% of every Roz on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Roz last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 57 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Roz
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About the name Roz
Roz is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1946 and has accumulated 57 births in the dataset. Roz's peak popularity came in 1946 when it ranked #3,994. Use the chart and map above to compare Roz's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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