Rosmary
Rosmary was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 146 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosmary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosmary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,202, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 2022, the peak
Rosmary peaked in 2022, when 8 girls were given it, #12,035 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,202 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,035 | 4.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,759 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,554 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,855 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,924 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,016 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,397 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,829 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,114 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | #5,630 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,256 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,742 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,141 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,148 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,185 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,124 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,127 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,963 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,915 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,879 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,691 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,981 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,312 | 4.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,923 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,733 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosmary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosmary has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosmary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosmary, and how old are they?
An estimated 94 Americans named Rosmary 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 708 people named Rosmary (699 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.6 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 164,512 babies since 1880, Rosmary is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,250 babies recorded by SSA was a Rosmary (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 Rosmary and names like it
- Compare Rosmary and RosemaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRosmary peaked in 2022.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Rosmary.
- Names starting with RMost given first.