Maryrose
Feminine · “Mary with the Marian title Rose”
Maryrose is not two names stuck together. It is a devotion. The Litany of Loreto, said since the sixteenth century, addresses the Virgin as Rosa Mystica, the mystical rose, and the rose has been her emblem in Catholic Europe for a thousand years. The rosary itself is named for it. The compound is a phrase from a prayer.
How old is the name Maryrose?
Maryrose first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Maryrose alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 1,700 people named Maryrose are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maryrose most popular?
Maryrose peaked in 1926, reaching #1148 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 6,737 places below that high. See the whole 1926 chart.
Where it comes from
From Miriam to Maryrose
The story of Maryrose
Marian titles work by accumulation. The Litany of Loreto, formally approved in 1587, addresses the Virgin under some fifty names in sequence: Mirror of Justice, Seat of Wisdom, Cause of Our Joy, Mystical Rose, Tower of David, Tower of Ivory, House of Gold, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven, Morning Star. Several of them became girls' names in Catholic countries, either alone or compounded with Mary: Rosemary, Maryrose, Stella and the Spanish Mercedes, Dolores, Pilar and Consuelo all come from titles rather than from the name Mary itself. So a compound like Maryrose is doing something a compound like Marybeth is not. Marybeth joins two names; Maryrose joins a name to an emblem, and to a reader inside that tradition the whole phrase is legible as a single reference.
Meaning
Mary with the Marian title Rose
Mary is from Hebrew Miriam, whose meaning is genuinely unknown despite a long list of proposed derivations. Rose is from Latin rosa, but in this compound it is not the flower as such: it is the Marian title Rosa Mystica from the Litany of Loreto, one of a long series of emblems applied to the Virgin. The pairing is devotional and specifically Catholic, which is why the name clusters in Irish and Italian American families and peaks in 1926.
How the name formed
- Miriam
- Mary
- Maryrose
Related forms: Mariarosa · Maria Rosa · Rosemary
Pronouncing Maryrose
MAIR-ee-rose
Three syllables, stress on the first with a secondary stress on the last. Written as one word it is said as one word; written Mary Rose it is usually said with a pause and two equal stresses.
Nicknames for Maryrose
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1910
- Most girls named
- 192644 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1148reached in 1926
- Change vs 2023
- −18.8%13 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maryrose in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mariarosa in Italian — same name
- Maria Rosa in Spanish — same name
- Rosemary in English — related form
Maryroses among us
people named Maryrose are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Maryrose
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Modesta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maryrose's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Modesta climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Modesta's path sketches the road Maryrose is walking now.
Maryrose sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Maryrose beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maryrose in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The compound has a specific and documented devotional meaning.
- Both halves are complete names and either can be used alone.
- It is legible across Catholic Europe in one form or another.
- It is often written as two words or hyphenated, and forms will vary.
- The reference is specifically Catholic and not universally read.
- The name is strongly associated with the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maryroses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Maryrose are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maryrose in 2025?
- Maryrose ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maryrose?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Maryrose — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maryrose with classmates?
- Maryrose will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maryrose
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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