Rosamond
Rosamond was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,777 among girls’ names; 3,294 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosamond by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosamond mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosamond is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Rosamund.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosamond?
#16,777 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosamond entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,777 in 2025.
111 babies in 1916, the peak
Rosamond peaked in 1916, when 111 girls were given it, #646 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,777 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,619 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,331 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,699 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,099 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #13,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,272 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,921 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,943 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,977 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,598 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,019 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 56 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 54 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 63 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 62 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 66 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 100 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 85 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 111 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 92 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 88 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 99 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 106 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 86 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 79 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 111 | #684 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 111 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 111 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 104 | #651 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 87 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 79 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 71 | #575 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 53 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 49 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 37 | #659 | 0.11 |
| 1908 | 37 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 37 | #622 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 30 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 28 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 21 | #801 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 30 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 24 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 21 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 18 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 16 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 23 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 16 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 20 | #723 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 12 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 14 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 9 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 11 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 7 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 7 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 9 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 8 | #668 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosamond a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosamond has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 111 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rosamond: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosamond, and how old are they?
An estimated 578 Americans named Rosamond and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 55 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,018 people named Rosamond (995 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 783 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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).
Where are babies named Rosamond born?
The states with the most babies named Rosamond are Massachusetts, New York and Indiana, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts and Indiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 377 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| New York | 250 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rosamond is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rosamond is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 3.8 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 Rosamond 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,011 babies since 1880, Rosamond is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 20 babies (25%), the second 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 Rosamond
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 Rosamond and names like it
- Compare Rosamond and RosemondBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRosamond peaked in 1916.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosamond since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Rosamond.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rosamond alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.