Roshell
Feminine · “A spelling of Rochelle”
Roshell is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 593 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Roshell is Rochelle written the way it sounds, with English sh in place of French ch. The spelling leaves the word shell at its end, whether or not anyone meant it to.
How old is the name Roshell?
Roshell first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Roshell alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 600 people named Roshell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Roshell most popular?
Roshell peaked in 1971, reaching #2665 nationally. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From La Rochelle to Roshell
The story of Roshell
French writes the sh sound as ch, in chef, machine and Rochelle, and English speakers who learned the name by ear often wrote it as they heard it. Roshell does exactly that, and in doing so ends on shell, an English word the French name never had; nothing records whether any family chose it for that. It is one of the spellings American families used for Rochelle.
Meaning
A spelling of Rochelle, 'little rock'
Rochelle is the French for a small rock, as in the port of La Rochelle. Roshell spells it by sound.
How the name formed
- La Rochelle
- Rochelle
- Roshell
Related forms: Rochelle
Pronouncing Roshell
roh-SHEL
Two syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Roshell
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 197127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2665reached in 1971
- Change vs 2003
- 0.0%5 in 2008, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Roshell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rochelle in French — spelling variant
Roshells among us
people named Roshell are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Roshell sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds like Rochelle, a name people know.
- Spelled as it is said.
- Comes with Shelly as a ready short form.
- Almost everyone will write Rochelle.
- Some will read it as a slip.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every Roshell is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Roshells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Roshell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Roshell in 2025?
- Roshell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Roshell with classmates?
- Roshell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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