# Rosalia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rosalia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,664 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 10,664 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 337, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Rosālia. Doublet of Rosalie.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 91 | 2,118 |
| 2012 | 98 | 1,996 |
| 2013 | 128 | 1,665 |
| 2014 | 120 | 1,743 |
| 2015 | 141 | 1,562 |
| 2016 | 132 | 1,647 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,551 |
| 2018 | 139 | 1,564 |
| 2019 | 179 | 1,289 |
| 2020 | 371 | 738 |
| 2021 | 461 | 647 |
| 2022 | 501 | 599 |
| 2023 | 517 | 580 |
| 2024 | 505 | 598 |
| 2025 | 481 | 609 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,432 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,521 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,659 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,911 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,782 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 24 | 1,311 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,180 |
| 2023 | 41 | 865 |
| 2024 | 36 | 980 |
| 2025 | 31 | 1,079 |

## People named Rosalia

- Rosalía de Castro, Galician poet and writer (1837-1885)
- Rosalia de Souza, Brazilian singer
- Rosalía Abreu, Cuban naturalist (1862-1930)
- Archduchess Maria Immakulata of Austria, Austrian archduchess (1878-1968)
- Rosemarie Nitribitt, German high-class call girl and murder victim

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.