Roz

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rose in US United States, PH Philippines, BR Brazil and 16 more, Rosa in PE Peru, EC Ecuador, Rhodes in NZ New Zealand, RU Russia and Ros in ES Spain.

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●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Roz is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name6.5K records spelled Roz9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Řöž, Röż, Róz, Röz, Rož

• French given name2.7K records spelled Roz5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Řôź, Rôz, Rōz

• a separate given name2.1K records spelled Roz4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Also written Róż, Róz, Ṛoz

• Polish given name1.1K records spelled Roz4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom

  Also written Róz, Ròż, Roż

• Turkish given name701 records spelled Roz4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Röz

46 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●

Roz 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 Kurdish, Day, rose, a noble name that symbolizes both brightness and elegance

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• English: variant spelling of Ros, with the final consonant altered to represent the voiced sound of the names from which it derives.

  as a word

• In Russian, var of Rozh.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In lou, alternative form of ròz (“pink”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In zlw-slv, time (instance, occurrence)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Roz Abischb. 1927USAmerican children's writer
• Roz Chastb. 1954USAmerican cartoonist (born 1954)
• Roz Petersonb. 1965USAmerican politician
• Roz KellyAUAustralian television sports presenter
• Roz UrkijoCOColombian actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 91 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roz?

We estimate roughly 989 thousand people bear Roz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Roz have the most bearers?

Roz is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled rose.

Where is Roz most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roz is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 67 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.

How common is Roz compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Roz is the 26th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

Is Roz a male or female name?

Roz 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 Roz mean?

Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Ros (“short for Rosalind or Rosamund”).