Rosalea
Rosalea was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,824 among girls’ names; 680 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosalea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosalea?
#7,824 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosalea rose from #12,779 in 2015 to #7,824 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 8.7 per million.
22 babies in 1926, the peak
Rosalea peaked in 1926, when 22 girls were given it, #1,872 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,824 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,929 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,001 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,945 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,949 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,495 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,513 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,536 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,202 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,329 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,779 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,783 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,847 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,677 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,253 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,080 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,846 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,169 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,426 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,351 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,038 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,349 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,596 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,486 | 3.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,921 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,411 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,331 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,297 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,708 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,938 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,059 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,948 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,906 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,141 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,549 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,690 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,998 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,084 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,372 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,674 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,399 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,943 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,547 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,026 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,862 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,895 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,244 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,117 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,761 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,071 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,108 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,172 | 8.5 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,284 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,922 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,085 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,872 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,908 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,115 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,601 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,743 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,998 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,895 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,777 | 10.6 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,042 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,316 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,840 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosalea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosalea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosalea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosalea, and how old are they?
An estimated 360 Americans named Rosalea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 9 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Rosalea (466 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 127,142 babies since 1880, Rosalea is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 2,696 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Rosalea
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 Rosalea and names like it
- Compare Rosalea and RosalieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Rosalea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rosalea alive today were born 2013-2025.
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