Rosamary
Rosamary was last recorded in 1971, when 6 babies were given it; 195 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosamary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosamary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,099, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1960, the peak
Rosamary peaked in 1960, when 12 girls were given it, #3,875 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | #8,099 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,361 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,577 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,770 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,794 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,410 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,875 | 5.9 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,943 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,458 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,581 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 7 | #4,554 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,337 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,471 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,247 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,243 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,511 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,923 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,822 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,807 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,129 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,516 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,254 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,489 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,307 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,086 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,617 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,365 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,726 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosamary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosamary has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosamary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosamary, and how old are they?
An estimated 95 Americans named Rosamary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Rosamary (182 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 166,364 babies since 1880, Rosamary is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,250 babies recorded by SSA was a Rosamary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Rosamary and names like it
- Compare Rosamary and RosemaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRosamary peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Rosamary.
- Names starting with RMost given first.