Rosa

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rosa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala1 in 37◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 67
  • PEPeru1 in 96

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.0M ●

across 12 countries

#58 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
435 ●

12M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 67 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

RosaLatin · Spanish●13M records
РозаCyrillic · Russian●701K records
ᲠოზაGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
רויהHebrew · Hebrew●1.7K records
ΡοζαGreek · Greek●93 records
ՌոզաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Roza in HU Hungary, PL Poland, HR Croatia and 2 more, Роза in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more, Roeya in FR France and Roja in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rosa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#343,483,7062.4M rec.—14KRosa134
PE Peru#62,361,0661.5M rec.—309KRosa126
MX Mexico#182,098,8472M rec.—1.9KRosa224
VE Venezuela#151,453,021626K rec.——Rosa99
GT Guatemala#7961,02429K rec.—266KRosa64
CL Chile#11742,33134K rec.—1Rosa122
RU Russia#119611,224189K rec.—#62Роза151
US United States#219253,6532.4M rec.1 in 1.3K254KRosa435
BR Brazil#80252,748385K rec.1 in 838307KRosa242
EC Ecuador#4252,558△6.2K rec.1 in 67253KRosa79
SV El Salvador#9212,492219K rec.——Rosa56
FR France—115,420△94 rec.1 in 588115KRoeya21

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish13M56%
  • Portuguese5.6M24%
  • English2.8M12%
  • Aymara309K1%
  • 223K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish13,256,68656%
Portuguese5,608,36924%
English2,830,42012%
Aymara308,5611%
222,7951%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rosa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name290K records spelled Rosa28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rouze, Rouzé, Rouzè, Roså, Rosä

  • a separate given name260K records spelled Rosa7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Ecuador

    Also written Rosá, Rosà, Roša, Rošā, Roșa

  • Indonesian given name39K records spelled Rosa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Rosa, Rosa'

  • Danish given name33K records spelled Rosa8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Iceland, Peru

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Icelandic

    Also written Rósa, Rösa

  • Hindi given name28K records spelled Rosa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Roşa, Rosà, ́rosa, Rósa

  • Finnish given name26K records spelled Rosa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rösä, Rósa, Rõsä, Rosä

106 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rosa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, rose (flower)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, Latín rosa 'rosa'; préstamo de un sustrato mediterráneo. Asociado a santas como Rosa de Viterbo y Rosa de Lima.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, do nome latino Rosa, ligado à flor; também matronímico

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Nome frequentissimo; dall’italiano rosa, il fiore. Diffuso anche come cognome.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • rose; origin from rose

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900195020002.2K · 1925

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Rosa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880507
1881500
1882542
1883507
1884607
1885623
1886673
1887659
1888832
1889707
1890770
1891729
1892796
1893790
1894780
1895832
1896808
1897770
1898841
1899765
19001,118
1901845
1902909
1903911
1904903
1905922
1906865
1907924
1908941
1909959
19101,131
19111,022
19121,305
19131,366
19141,514
19151,793
19161,793
19171,829
19182,034
19192,189
19202,199
19211,977
19222,106
19232,050
19242,148
19252,230
19262,115
19272,109
19281,970
19291,887
19301,877
19311,633
19321,757
19331,645
19341,582
19351,600
19361,454
19371,440
19381,568
19391,494
19401,549
19411,477
19421,572
19431,681
19441,670
19451,576
19461,620
19471,801
19481,926
19491,924
19501,886
19511,956
19521,942
19532,022
19542,108
19552,049
19562,172
19572,080
19581,862
19591,799
19601,831
19611,649
19621,612
19631,510
19641,519
19651,408
19661,398
19671,327
19681,348
19691,439
19701,425
19711,377
19721,293
19731,260
19741,252
19751,208
19761,159
19771,090
19781,076
19791,152
19801,270
19811,226
19821,205
19831,047
1984978
19851,011
1986970
1987970
1988979
19891,138
19901,176
19911,150
19921,172
19931,257
19941,254
19951,008
1996993
1997967
19981,125
1999983
20001,005
2001938
2002876
2003787
2004737
2005776
2006813
2007742
2008696
2009626
2010518
2011469
2012469
2013437
2014480
2015456
2016466
2017443
2018466
2019450
2020460
2021451
2022494
2023441
2024442
2025441

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Red Rosa Luxemburg, b. 1871Rosa Parks, b. 1913Linda Christian, b. 1923Rosa Schärer, b. 1924Rita Moreno, b. 1931Connie Francis, b. 1937Roza Otunbayeva, b. 1950Rosa Mota, b. 1958Rossy de Palma, b. 1964Rosa Salazar, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 150 sources across 76 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019309K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—307K#159
GT GuatemalaRENAP — annual births2024266K#4
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020254K#213
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022253K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024253K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—252K#122
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—93K#55
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—86K#112
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202034K#1,007
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201034K#1,035
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200028K#1,132

Reference works 8

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,915 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rosa?
We estimate roughly 1.0 million people bear Rosa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Rosa have the most bearers?
Rosa is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled rosa.
How common is Rosa compared with other names?
In Argentina, Rosa is the 34th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Rosa a male or female name?
Rosa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Rosa mean?
Recorded meaning: from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rosa” — the 34th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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