# Rose (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rose/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | “fame”, “kind”, “sort”, “type” |
| Pronunciation | /ɹoʊz/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | Rosie, Roisin, Rosy, Rosey |
| Variant spellings | Rosa |
| US babies named this | 502,704 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,118 / 500,586 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18,709, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. * Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese. * As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.

## What it means

Rose is grouped under famous.

## 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 | 1,101 | 289 |
| 2012 | 1,253 | 258 |
| 2013 | 1,429 | 225 |
| 2014 | 1,702 | 194 |
| 2015 | 1,956 | 166 |
| 2016 | 2,041 | 151 |
| 2017 | 2,079 | 141 |
| 2018 | 2,457 | 123 |
| 2019 | 2,539 | 115 |
| 2020 | 2,380 | 112 |
| 2021 | 2,402 | 116 |
| 2022 | 2,373 | 119 |
| 2023 | 2,252 | 124 |
| 2024 | 2,394 | 114 |
| 2025 | 2,386 | 114 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | 7,073 |
| 1982 | 8 | 4,918 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,119 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,469 |
| 1985 | 11 | 3,996 |
| 1986 | 11 | 4,072 |
| 1988 | 9 | 5,142 |
| 1989 | 12 | 4,478 |
| 1991 | 10 | 5,432 |
| 1992 | 5 | 9,539 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,891 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,807 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,934 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,391 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,590 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 764 | 76 |
| 2012 | 764 | 78 |
| 2013 | 823 | 68 |
| 2014 | 990 | 62 |
| 2015 | 926 | 65 |
| 2016 | 974 | 62 |
| 2017 | 932 | 60 |
| 2018 | 960 | 55 |
| 2019 | 923 | 56 |
| 2020 | 803 | 61 |
| 2021 | 787 | 68 |
| 2022 | 881 | 54 |
| 2023 | 784 | 55 |
| 2024 | 742 | 59 |
| 2025 | 666 | 67 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: روز
- Catalan: Rosa
- Chinese: 羅絲 /罗丝
- Danish: Rosa
- Esperanto: Roza
- Finnish: Roosa, Ruusu
- French: Rose
- German: Rosa
- Hindi: रोज़ा, रोजा
- Hungarian: Rózsa, Róza, Rozália
- Irish: Róis
- Italian: Rosa
- Japanese: ローズ
- Korean: 로즈
- Polish: Róża
- Portuguese: Rosa
- Russian: Ро́за
- Spanish: Rosa
- Swedish: Rosa

## People named Rose

- Rose of Lima, Dominican saint from Peru
- Rose Byrne, Australian actress
- Rose McGowan, American actress, director and activist
- Rose Francine Rogombe, Gabonese politician (1942-2015)
- Rose Marie, American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer (1923–2017)
- Ruby Rose, Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist (born 1986)
- Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist and Kennedy family matriarch (1890–1995)
- Rose Cleveland, First Lady of United States (1846-1918)
- Rose Lavelle, American soccer player
- Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
- Gypsy Rose Lee, American burlesque performer, actress and author (1911–1970)
- Rose Namajunas, American mixed martial artist

## 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.