Rosela
Rosela was last recorded in 1986, when 5 babies were given it; 56 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,352, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1971, the peak
Rosela peaked in 1971, when 8 girls were given it, #6,462 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | #12,352 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,216 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,462 | 4.8 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,545 | 3.2 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,967 | 2.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,132 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,164 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,496 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,367 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,432 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosela, and how old are they?
An estimated 26 Americans named Rosela 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 394 people named Rosela (391 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.1 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).
How common is the spelling Rosela?
Rosela is a less common spelling of Rosella: SSA has recorded 56 Rosela and 15,995 Rosella since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,590 babies since 1880, Rosela is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 643 babies recorded by SSA was a Rosela (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 Rosela and names like it
- Compare Rosela and RosellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRosela peaked in 1971.
- New Mexico’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosela since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Rosela.
- Names starting with RMost given first.