Rosa
Rosa was given to 441 girls in 2025, #653 among girls’ names; 178,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 90,800 Americans named Rosa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 33 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosa is “a female given name from Latin; a Latinized variant of Rose.” Its etymology gives the sense “rose” (rosa).
Borrowed from Latin rosa (“rose”).
/ˈɹoʊzə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosa?
#653 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosa fell from #628 in 2015 to #653 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.26 to 0.27 per 1,000.
2,245 babies in 1925, the peak
Rosa peaked in 1925, when 2,245 babies were given it (2,230 girls, #125 among girls’ names). The 441 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 441 | #653 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 442 | #662 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 441 | #669 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 494 | #605 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 451 | #662 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 460 | #631 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 450 | #649 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 466 | #640 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 443 | #665 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 466 | #638 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 456 | #628 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 480 | #607 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 437 | #649 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 469 | #614 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 469 | #618 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 518 | #564 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 626 | #492 | 0.34 |
| 2008 | 696 | #454 | 0.37 |
| 2007 | 742 | #436 | 0.39 |
| 2006 | 813 | #395 | 0.43 |
| 2005 | 776 | #407 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 737 | #415 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 787 | #388 | 0.43 |
| 2002 | 876 | #340 | 0.49 |
| 2001 | 938 | #331 | 0.52 |
| 2000 | 1,005 | #315 | 0.55 |
| 1999 | 983 | #315 | 0.55 |
| 1998 | 1,125 | #276 | 0.64 |
| 1997 | 967 | #297 | 0.56 |
| 1996 | 993 | #292 | 0.57 |
| 1995 | 1,008 | #271 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 1,254 | #228 | 0.70 |
| 1993 | 1,257 | #220 | 0.69 |
| 1992 | 1,172 | #233 | 0.64 |
| 1991 | 1,150 | #241 | 0.61 |
| 1990 | 1,176 | #242 | 0.62 |
| 1989 | 1,138 | #242 | 0.62 |
| 1988 | 979 | #260 | 0.55 |
| 1987 | 970 | #261 | 0.56 |
| 1986 | 970 | #264 | 0.57 |
| 1985 | 1,011 | #252 | 0.59 |
| 1984 | 978 | #255 | 0.58 |
| 1983 | 1,047 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1982 | 1,205 | #217 | 0.71 |
| 1981 | 1,226 | #213 | 0.73 |
| 1980 | 1,270 | #204 | 0.76 |
| 1979 | 1,152 | #227 | 0.72 |
| 1978 | 1,076 | #229 | 0.70 |
| 1977 | 1,090 | #229 | 0.71 |
| 1976 | 1,159 | #212 | 0.79 |
| 1975 | 1,208 | #204 | 0.83 |
| 1974 | 1,252 | #203 | 0.85 |
| 1973 | 1,260 | #205 | 0.86 |
| 1972 | 1,293 | #214 | 0.85 |
| 1971 | 1,377 | #221 | 0.83 |
| 1970 | 1,425 | #221 | 0.82 |
| 1969 | 1,439 | #216 | 0.85 |
| 1968 | 1,348 | #221 | 0.82 |
| 1967 | 1,327 | #221 | 0.80 |
| 1966 | 1,398 | #218 | 0.83 |
| 1965 | 1,408 | #226 | 0.80 |
| 1964 | 1,519 | #223 | 0.80 |
| 1963 | 1,510 | #222 | 0.78 |
| 1962 | 1,612 | #211 | 0.82 |
| 1961 | 1,649 | #209 | 0.82 |
| 1960 | 1,831 | #197 | 0.91 |
| 1959 | 1,799 | #198 | 0.89 |
| 1958 | 1,862 | #189 | 0.93 |
| 1957 | 2,080 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 2,172 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 2,049 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1954 | 2,108 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1953 | 2,022 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 1,942 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 1,956 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1950 | 1,886 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 1,924 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 1,926 | #149 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 1,801 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1946 | 1,620 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 1,576 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1944 | 1,670 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1943 | 1,681 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1942 | 1,572 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1941 | 1,477 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1940 | 1,549 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 1939 | 1,494 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 1938 | 1,568 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 1937 | 1,440 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 1936 | 1,454 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 1935 | 1,600 | #137 | 1.5 |
| 1934 | 1,582 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1933 | 1,645 | #132 | 1.6 |
| 1932 | 1,757 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 1931 | 1,633 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 1930 | 1,877 | #129 | 1.7 |
| 1929 | 1,887 | #129 | 1.7 |
| 1928 | 1,970 | #125 | 1.7 |
| 1927 | 2,109 | #124 | 1.8 |
| 1926 | 2,115 | #125 | 1.8 |
| 1925 | 2,230 | #125 | 1.8 |
| 1924 | 2,148 | #129 | 1.7 |
| 1923 | 2,050 | #130 | 1.7 |
| 1922 | 2,106 | #123 | 1.8 |
| 1921 | 1,977 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 1920 | 2,199 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1919 | 2,189 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 1918 | 2,034 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 1917 | 1,829 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 1916 | 1,793 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 1915 | 1,793 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1914 | 1,514 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 1913 | 1,366 | #101 | 2.2 |
| 1912 | 1,305 | #94 | 2.3 |
| 1911 | 1,022 | #92 | 2.4 |
| 1910 | 1,131 | #83 | 2.9 |
| 1909 | 959 | #87 | 2.8 |
| 1908 | 941 | #86 | 2.8 |
| 1907 | 924 | #82 | 2.9 |
| 1906 | 865 | #82 | 2.9 |
| 1905 | 922 | #79 | 3.2 |
| 1904 | 903 | #76 | 3.3 |
| 1903 | 911 | #74 | 3.5 |
| 1902 | 909 | #75 | 3.4 |
| 1901 | 845 | #75 | 3.5 |
| 1900 | 1,118 | #69 | 3.7 |
| 1899 | 765 | #77 | 3.3 |
| 1898 | 841 | #75 | 3.3 |
| 1897 | 770 | #74 | 3.3 |
| 1896 | 808 | #74 | 3.4 |
| 1895 | 832 | #71 | 3.6 |
| 1894 | 780 | #70 | 3.5 |
| 1893 | 790 | #70 | 3.7 |
| 1892 | 796 | #68 | 3.7 |
| 1891 | 729 | #65 | 3.9 |
| 1890 | 770 | #64 | 4.0 |
| 1889 | 707 | #66 | 4.0 |
| 1888 | 832 | #62 | 4.7 |
| 1887 | 659 | #60 | 4.5 |
| 1886 | 673 | #59 | 4.7 |
| 1885 | 623 | #58 | 4.7 |
| 1884 | 607 | #58 | 4.7 |
| 1883 | 507 | #61 | 4.5 |
| 1882 | 542 | #57 | 5.0 |
| 1881 | 500 | #53 | 5.4 |
| 1880 | 507 | #52 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosa has been given almost only to girls: 1,173 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rosa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosa, and how old are they?
90,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 178,588 Americans ever recorded as Rosa. The median Rosa alive today is 54 years old; half are between 33 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 254,275 people named Rosa (253,653 women and girls, 622 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 97,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8,490 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rosa born?
The states with the most babies named Rosa are Texas, California and Georgia, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29,475 | #595 | 2.9× |
| California | 20,899 | #583 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 10,330 | #672 | 2.2× |
| South Carolina | 9,964 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| North Carolina | 9,380 | #506 | 1.9× |
| New York | 8,316 | #583 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 6,367 | #602 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 5,848 | #689 | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 5,624 | #702 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 4,550 | #739 | 0.6× |
Where Rosa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rosa is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rosa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 777,501 babies since 1880, Rosa is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 441 of their 3,997 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rosa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rosa and names like it
- Compare Rosa and RoseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRosa peaked in 1925.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosa since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Rosa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rosa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.