Rosella
Rosella was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,347 among girls’ names; 15,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,430 Americans named Rosella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 25 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosella?
#2,347 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosella rose from #3,585 in 2015 to #2,347 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.6 to 48.5 per million.
435 babies in 1924, the peak
Rosella peaked in 1924, when 435 girls were given it, #320 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,347 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,324 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,283 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,024 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,703 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,653 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,811 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,858 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,737 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,369 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,585 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,263 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,765 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,515 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,032 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,477 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,258 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,915 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,646 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,778 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,188 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,713 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,629 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,241 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,073 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,419 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,305 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,206 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,993 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,915 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,363 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,567 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,907 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,765 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,482 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,005 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,583 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,678 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,781 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,322 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,929 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,891 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,134 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,893 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,055 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,637 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,149 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,129 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,591 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,722 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,574 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 64 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 70 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 73 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 97 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 110 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 108 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 132 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 119 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 117 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 166 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 147 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 138 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 147 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 163 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 171 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 178 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 200 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 226 | #447 | 0.21 |
| 1938 | 223 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1937 | 220 | #444 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 247 | #409 | 0.24 |
| 1935 | 268 | #392 | 0.26 |
| 1934 | 255 | #411 | 0.24 |
| 1933 | 275 | #389 | 0.27 |
| 1932 | 295 | #380 | 0.28 |
| 1931 | 309 | #366 | 0.29 |
| 1930 | 363 | #344 | 0.32 |
| 1929 | 335 | #364 | 0.30 |
| 1928 | 360 | #363 | 0.31 |
| 1927 | 392 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1926 | 426 | #321 | 0.36 |
| 1925 | 377 | #348 | 0.31 |
| 1924 | 435 | #320 | 0.35 |
| 1923 | 382 | #336 | 0.32 |
| 1922 | 410 | #323 | 0.34 |
| 1921 | 425 | #318 | 0.34 |
| 1920 | 406 | #322 | 0.34 |
| 1919 | 374 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1918 | 420 | #313 | 0.36 |
| 1917 | 398 | #308 | 0.37 |
| 1916 | 387 | #307 | 0.37 |
| 1915 | 357 | #311 | 0.36 |
| 1914 | 237 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1913 | 225 | #320 | 0.36 |
| 1912 | 186 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1911 | 140 | #335 | 0.33 |
| 1910 | 123 | #359 | 0.31 |
| 1909 | 117 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1908 | 119 | #324 | 0.36 |
| 1907 | 112 | #331 | 0.35 |
| 1906 | 106 | #329 | 0.36 |
| 1905 | 83 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1904 | 93 | #338 | 0.34 |
| 1903 | 84 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1902 | 72 | #376 | 0.27 |
| 1901 | 80 | #343 | 0.33 |
| 1900 | 94 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1899 | 46 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1898 | 79 | #350 | 0.31 |
| 1897 | 55 | #394 | 0.23 |
| 1896 | 47 | #422 | 0.20 |
| 1895 | 53 | #389 | 0.23 |
| 1894 | 61 | #358 | 0.27 |
| 1893 | 41 | #428 | 0.19 |
| 1892 | 53 | #368 | 0.25 |
| 1891 | 34 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 33 | #459 | 0.17 |
| 1889 | 30 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1888 | 38 | #402 | 0.21 |
| 1887 | 28 | #420 | 0.19 |
| 1886 | 22 | #474 | 0.15 |
| 1885 | 29 | #385 | 0.22 |
| 1884 | 27 | #388 | 0.21 |
| 1883 | 25 | #371 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 18 | #443 | 0.17 |
| 1881 | 12 | #500 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 25 | #325 | 0.27 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosella has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rosella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosella, and how old are they?
4,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 28% of the 15,995 Americans ever recorded as Rosella. The median Rosella alive today is 66 years old; half are between 25 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 4,790 people named Rosella (4,776 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,090 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,320 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 526 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 287 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 389 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 782 |
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 Rosella born?
The states with the most babies named Rosella are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Minnesota, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,428 | #1,209 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 952 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 925 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Wisconsin | 688 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 654 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 458 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 413 | #1,376 | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 407 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 393 | #2,365 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 361 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Rosella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rosella is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Rosella 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 32,910 babies since 1880, Rosella is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 660 babies (12%), 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 Rosella
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 Rosella and names like it
- Compare Rosella and RosaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRosella peaked in 1924.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosella since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Rosella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rosella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.