Rosalva — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rosalva

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,128 babies named Rosalva between 1926 and 2023, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rosalva currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rosalva performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 517 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Rosalva shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 901 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Rosalva in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rosalva in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,128 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.