# Rosendo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rosendo/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | “glory”, “fame”, “path” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,422 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,422 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Surname from transferred use of given name, of Spanish, Galician, or Portuguese origin, from Medieval Latin Rudesindus, from the Germanic (Gothic) name Rudesind, composed of the elements *𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (*hrōþs, “glory, fame”) and *𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (*sinþs, “path”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz + *sinþaz.

## What it means

Rosendo 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 3,227 |
| 2012 | 36 | 3,157 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,730 |
| 2014 | 21 | 4,674 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,351 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,442 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,085 |
| 2018 | 32 | 3,505 |
| 2019 | 31 | 3,619 |
| 2020 | 26 | 4,004 |
| 2021 | 29 | 3,801 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,410 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,979 |
| 2024 | 22 | 4,675 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,229 |

## People named Rosendo

- Rosendo Mendizábal, Argentine musician (1868–1913)
- Rudesind, Galician bishop and abbot
- Héctor Robles, Chilean footballer
- Bienvenido Granda, Cuban musician (1915–1983)
- Paco Moncayo, Ecuadorian politician and general

## 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.