Rossana
Rossana was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,784 among girls’ names; 892 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rossana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rossana mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Rossana is “a female given name, equivalent to English Roxana”
/rosˈsa.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rossana?
#16,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Rossana entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,784 in 2025.
43 babies in 1956, the peak
Rossana peaked in 1956, when 43 girls were given it, #1,629 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,784 | 3.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,125 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,312 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,176 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,247 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,593 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,887 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,359 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,908 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,620 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #12,848 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,330 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,912 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,992 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,009 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,235 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,349 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,954 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,304 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,381 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,330 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,660 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,427 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,066 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,245 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,184 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,424 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,142 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,181 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,823 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,569 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,209 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,865 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,499 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,610 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,405 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,918 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,809 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,627 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,290 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,585 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,425 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,157 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,442 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,808 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,181 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,937 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,517 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,660 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,709 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,076 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,496 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,207 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,629 | 21.4 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,071 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,913 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rossana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rossana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rossana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rossana, and how old are they?
An estimated 820 Americans named Rossana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 37 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,878 people named Rossana (2,876 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 836 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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).
Where are babies named Rossana born?
The states with the most babies named Rossana are California, New York and Texas, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 185 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 98 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rossana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rossana is most over-represented in California: since 1954 it was given 1.9 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 Rossana 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 31,059 babies since 1880, Rossana is the sixth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 129 babies (3.9%), 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 Rossana
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 Rossana and names like it
- Compare Rossana and RosannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRossana peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rossana since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Rossana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Rossana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rossana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.