Rosey
Rosey was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,069 among girls’ names; 1,288 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 Rosey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rosey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rosey is “a diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Roosevelt.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rosey?
#5,069 among girls’ names, 2025
Rosey rose from #6,414 in 2015 to #5,069 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 16.2 per million.
31 babies in 2020, the peak
Rosey peaked in 2020, when 31 girls were given it, #4,425 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,069 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,879 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,098 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,033 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,486 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,425 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,010 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,115 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,304 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,167 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,414 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,985 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,848 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,133 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,540 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,853 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,067 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,174 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,338 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,886 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,524 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,327 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,035 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,365 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,950 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,430 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,241 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,578 | 4.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,946 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,355 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,337 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,862 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,055 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,900 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,208 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,499 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,984 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,103 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,002 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,927 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,927 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,415 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,367 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,891 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,829 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,217 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,962 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,400 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,985 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,351 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,945 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,400 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,704 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,681 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,644 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,349 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,078 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,250 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,704 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,946 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,199 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,857 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,958 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,633 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,757 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,959 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,251 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,454 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,714 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,788 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,708 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,826 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,122 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,706 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,037 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,936 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,174 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,538 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,636 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,173 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,525 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,763 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,749 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,396 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,702 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,014 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,486 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,157 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,138 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,648 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,653 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,799 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,664 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,104 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,004 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,961 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,802 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,361 | 15.1 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,525 | 26.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,488 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,915 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,892 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,633 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,419 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 14 | #962 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,316 | 33.4 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,663 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,366 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,774 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,218 | 35.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,619 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,251 | 33.0 |
| 1890 | 14 | #751 | 73.5 |
| 1889 | 10 | #895 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,255 | 33.6 |
| 1886 | 8 | #882 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,026 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,008 | 46.5 |
| 1881 | 5 | #923 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosey, and how old are they?
An estimated 689 Americans named Rosey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 8 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 906 people named Rosey (894 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 777,501 babies since 1880, Rosey is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 3,997 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Rosey
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 Rosey and names like it
- Compare Rosey and RoseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRosey peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosey since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Rosey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rosey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.