Rosi — #8017 US girls' name
425 babies named Rosi in U.S. Social Security records since 1950, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 55% of names given to girls today.
23% of everyone ever named Rosi was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Rosi in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rosi
The Social Security Administration has registered 425 babies named Rosi between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rosi currently holds the #8017 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rosi performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Rosi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rosi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rosi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 425 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Rosi at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Rosi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1950
- Peak year (1998)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 75 years of records
Currently ranks #8017 among girls.
425 total births across 75 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 20 births in a single year.
Rosi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 96 births that decade — 23% of Rosi's all-time total
Rosi decade highlights
- Peak decade 96 births
- Runner-up 96 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Rosi's strongest decade
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Rosi by state
Where Rosi concentrates geographically — total births since 1950
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 31 | 7.3% |
31 of 425 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 7.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1950–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.