Rosemary

given name · English · Latin script

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

Rosemary is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Herb name; from Latin ros marinus, 'dew of the sea'.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 744◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.2K
  • SESweden1 in 1.2K

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

≈153K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
448 ●

2.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

RosemaryLatin · English●1.5M records
รุสมาลThai · Thai●4 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rosemarie in PH Philippines, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 11 more and Rose-Marie in FR France, SE Sweden, BE Belgium.

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●

Herb name; from Latin ros marinus, 'dew of the sea'.

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Rosemary is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#57224,563186K rec.—23KRosemarie124
GB United Kingdom#198176,118147K rec.—9Rosemary198
US United States#281112,5431.7M rec.1 in 3K113KRosemary448
DE Germany#25191,90187K rec.—1Rosemarie162
AU Australia#25682,40065K rec.—83Rosemary201
CA Canada#30642,90839K rec.—5Rosemary161
NG Nigeria#31223,12732K rec.——Rosemary99
BR Brazil—18,519△2.1K rec.1 in 11K19KRosemary56
IT Italy#48313,56314K rec.—14Rosemary53
FR France#94210,84516K rec.1 in 6.3K11KRose-Marie184
SE Sweden#2608,4074.5K rec.1 in 1.2K8.4KRose-Marie42
ZA South Africa#4737,8468.8K rec.——Rosemary79

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

Languages●

  • English1.5M66%
  • Portuguese318K14%
  • Spanish101K4%
  • Swahili90K4%
  • 53K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,497,76566%
Portuguese318,01514%
Spanish100,6154%
Swahili89,7274%
52,7972%

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◐

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

  • Portuguese given name462K records spelled Rosemary13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, France, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Rose-Mary, Rose Mary, Rosé-Mary, Rösëmärÿ

  • Swahili given name103K records spelled Rosemary4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Nigeria, Tanzania

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Rose-Mary

  • a separate given name59K records spelled Rosemary2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Rose-Mary

  • Arabic given name30K records spelled Rosemary11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, Nigeria

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written רוזמרי, Rosemarie, Rose-Mary, רוז-מרי, Rose-Marie

  • Polish given name9.4K records spelled Rosemary30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Poland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Rosemarie, Розмари, Rose-Marie, Rozmari, Роз-Мари

  • Hungarian given name3.0K records spelled Rosemary5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rose-Mary

61 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●

Rosemary 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 French, English name from the herb rosemary; also read as rose + Mary.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Dew of the sea; fragrant herb; combination of Rose + Mary

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis), that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

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

  • In French, Nom anglais composé de rose + mary; parfois rapproché du romarin.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • English: a 19th-century coinage, from the name of the herb (which is from Latin ros mar nus sea dew). It is often also assumed to be a combination of the names ROSE and MARY . Cognate: German, Scandinavian: Rosemarie. Pet forms: English: Rosie. German: Röschen, Romy .

    as a word

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●

02K4K6K1900195020004.5K · 1947

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Rosemary in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18829
18838
18847
18855
188611
188711
18888
188914
189016
189111
189216
189323
189412
189523
189618
189729
189829
189923
190040
190129
190237
190348
190454
190564
190661
190787
190891
1909123
1910141
1911160
1912298
1913388
1914563
1915820
1916996
19171,124
19181,259
19191,330
19201,713
19212,034
19222,170
19232,427
19242,734
19252,755
19262,900
19273,153
19282,972
19293,107
19303,151
19312,722
19322,483
19332,227
19342,132
19352,394
19362,148
19372,307
19382,681
19392,612
19402,874
19412,677
19423,005
19432,966
19442,744
19453,500
19464,486
19474,542
19483,870
19493,633
19503,455
19513,345
19522,787
19532,432
19542,192
19552,015
19562,066
19572,275
19582,223
19592,230
19602,192
19612,133
19621,939
19631,729
19641,629
19651,276
19661,122
1967914
1968876
1969794
1970797
1971743
1972617
1973609
1974624
1975534
1976497
1977460
1978453
1979489
1980576
1981565
1982532
1983489
1984490
1985512
1986473
1987455
1988431
1989466
1990472
1991429
1992420
1993395
1994402
1995403
1996421
1997339
1998395
1999375
2000397
2001401
2002403
2003403
2004376
2005362
2006411
2007406
2008398
2009404
2010396
2011439
2012479
2013563
2014537
2015607
2016740
2017699
2018699
2019771
2020698
2021846
2022873
2023995
20241,048
20251,222

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 144 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900192019401960Rosemary DeCamp, b. 1910Rosemary Murphy, b. 1925Rosemary Harris, b. 1927Rosemary Clooney, b. 1928Jean Shrimpton, b. 1942Rosemary Forsyth, b. 1943Camilla Parker Bowles, b. 1947Rosie Casals, b. 1948Rosemary Dunsmore, b. 1953Fran Walsh, b. 1959

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 79 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosemary
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020113K#501
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202219K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—18K#1,118
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—15K#1,687
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.2K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—465#875
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—435#5,032
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—405#2,467
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—231#4,722
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—208#4,644
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—199#5,472
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020191#100,867

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 994 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rosemary?
We estimate roughly 153 thousand people bear Rosemary (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Rosemary have the most bearers?
Rosemary is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled rosemarie.
How common is Rosemary compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Rosemary is the 57th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Rosemary a male or female name?
Rosemary 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 Rosemary mean?
Recorded meaning: Herb name; from Latin ros marinus, 'dew of the sea'.
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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, “Rosemary” — the 57th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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