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Rose

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Rose was given to 2,386 girls in 2025, #114 among girls’ names; 502,704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 193,000 Americans named Rose and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 35 and 75.

Babies named Rose each year, first recorded in 1880
Rose, 1880-2025; highest in 1917.2k4k6k8k10k188019001920194019601980200020251917 peak: 9,821
Rose, 1880-2025; highest in 1917.2k4k6k8k10k188019001920194019601980200020251917 peak: 9,821
Rose, 1880-2025; highest in 1917.2k4k6k8k10k18801905193019551980200520251917 peak: 9,821
Rose, 1880-2025; highest in 1917.2k4k6k8k10k18801930198020251917 peak: 9,821

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Rose or RosaNames of the 1910sNames in New York

Births of Rose by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Rose mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Rose is “a female given name from Germanic.”

As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion.

Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese.

As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross.

As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.

/ɹoʊz/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Rose (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Rose?

#114 among girls’ names, 2025

Rose rose from #166 in 2015 to #114 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.1 to 1.5 per 1,000.

9,821 babies in 1917, the peak

Rose peaked in 1917, when 9,821 babies were given it (9,783 girls, #16 among girls’ names). The 2,386 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.

Rose by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
20252,386#1141.5
20242,394#1141.5
20232,252#1241.4
20222,373#1191.4
20212,402#1161.5
20202,380#1121.5
20192,539#1151.5
20182,457#1231.4
20172,079#1411.2
20162,041#1511.2
Every recorded year (146)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
20151,956#1661.1
20141,702#1941.0
20131,429#2250.81
20121,253#2580.71
20111,101#2890.63
2010965#3340.54
2009941#3490.51
2008975#3410.52
2007942#3480.49
2006961#3430.51
2005968#3310.52
2004896#3530.49
2003854#3580.47
2002922#3290.51
20011,030#3080.57
20001,080#2990.59
19991,132#2780.64
19981,019#2970.58
1997666#3920.38
1996703#3780.40
1995787#3370.45
1994792#3390.44
1993745#3430.41
1992859#3180.47
1991884#3090.47
1990901#3070.47
1989893#2930.48
1988866#2870.49
1987836#2910.48
1986823#2980.48
1985967#2600.56
19841,058#2380.63
19831,061#2330.64
19821,096#2330.65
19811,098#2310.66
19801,134#2250.68
1979921#2660.57
1978916#2590.60
1977965#2570.63
1976972#2440.66
1975946#2570.65
19741,057#2430.72
19731,093#2340.75
19721,309#2110.86
19711,431#2100.86
19701,778#1831.0
19691,872#1721.1
19681,951#1651.2
19672,255#1521.4
19662,532#1411.5
19652,865#1331.6
19643,480#1201.8
19633,700#1181.9
19624,002#1162.0
19614,320#1112.1
19604,882#982.4
19595,446#882.7
19586,043#783.0
19576,896#693.4
19567,337#643.7
19557,852#544.0
19547,996#544.1
19537,004#593.7
19526,553#623.5
19516,185#653.4
19505,376#693.1
19495,371#663.1
19485,556#623.3
19475,654#653.2
19465,183#603.3
19454,557#543.5
19444,710#523.5
19435,206#503.7
19425,253#503.9
19414,955#494.1
19405,198#444.5
19395,040#424.6
19385,292#394.8
19375,450#385.1
19365,699#375.5
19355,232#375.0
19345,583#375.3
19335,770#355.7
19326,476#336.1
19316,881#306.5
19307,688#296.8
19297,785#267.0
19288,161#247.1
19278,497#237.1
19268,509#257.2
19258,280#266.8
19248,479#256.8
19238,440#237.0
19228,791#237.3
19219,352#207.6
19209,011#207.5
19199,195#198.1
19189,568#178.3
19179,783#169.0
19169,605#159.2
19159,375#169.5
19147,574#159.9
19136,171#149.9
19125,431#159.7
19114,151#149.9
19103,837#169.7
19093,374#179.7
19083,382#1610.1
19073,116#179.8
19062,901#179.8
19052,724#189.3
19042,631#189.6
19032,478#189.5
19022,444#209.3
19012,212#209.2
19002,844#189.5
18992,197#219.4
18982,436#209.4
18972,316#199.9
18962,341#209.8
18952,262#219.7
18942,126#229.5
18932,012#239.5
18922,023#229.5
18911,696#229.1
18901,725#259.1
18891,550#268.7
18881,590#278.9
18871,242#308.5
18861,261#268.7
18851,164#258.7
18841,060#308.2
1883877#337.8
1882886#288.2
1881734#318.0
1880700#307.7

Download Rose’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Rose a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Rose has been given almost only to girls: 2,118 boys in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named Rose: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Rose, and how old are they?

193,000 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 38% of the 502,704 Americans ever recorded as Rose. The median Rose alive today is 66 years old; half are between 35 and 75.

The 2020 Census counted 196,309 people named Rose (195,850 women and girls, 459 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 212,174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-109576
90-998,260
80-8923,400
70-7948,000
60-69 (median)37,400
50-5913,500
40-499,640
30-398,070
20-299,410
10-1913,200
0-921,100

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-194528,300
Baby Boomers1946-196484,100
Generation X1965-198022,200
Millennials1981-199614,000
Generation Z1997-201215,500
Generation Alpha2013-202528,200

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 Rose born?

The states with the most babies named Rose are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
StateSince 1910Rank, girlsvs. national
New York68,811#691.8×
Pennsylvania42,080#831.3×
California25,800#1200.9×
Illinois25,042#1021.1×
Ohio21,640#1321.0×
New Jersey20,528#801.5×
Texas20,291#2030.7×
Michigan16,695#760.9×
Massachusetts15,370#641.1×
Louisiana11,179#1541.2×

Where Rose is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Rose is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

New York1.77×
New Jersey1.54×
New Mexico1.49×
Pennsylvania1.33×
Connecticut1.33×
Louisiana1.20×
Rhode Island1.19×
Arizona1.17×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Rose 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 779,399 babies since 1880, Rose is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,386 of their 3,988 babies (60%), again the most given.

Rose and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Rose502,7042,3861917
Rosa178,5884411925
Rosie86,0261,0881927
Rosia3,506under 51925
Rossie2,58671919
Rosio2,493under 51981
Rosy2,208402018
Rosey1,288262020

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 Rose

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Alice590,106
Louise338,662
Rosie86,026
Elva32,514
Neva21,226
Adele42,373

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 Rose and names like it

  1. Compare Rose and RosaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1910sRose peaked in 1917.
  3. New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rose since 1910.
  4. Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rose: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Rose.
  6. The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rose alive today were born 1946-1964.
  7. Names starting with RMost given first.

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