Rosalea
Feminine · “Latin "of the roses”
The rosary is a garden. Latin rosarium means a rose garden, and the prayer beads were called that as a metaphor — a garland of prayers offered to Mary, each one a flower. The name Rosalie comes out of the same devotional vocabulary.
How old is the name Rosalea?
Rosalea first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Rosalea alive today was born around 1944, making them about 81 years old. About 400 people named Rosalea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rosalea most popular?
Rosalea peaked in 1934, reaching #1697 nationally. Today it ranks #7491, 5,794 places below that high. See the whole 1934 chart.
Where it comes from
From rosa to Rosalea
The story of Rosalea
The metaphor is explicit in medieval devotional writing: a collection of prayers is a garland, a chaplet, a crown of roses offered to the Virgin, and rosarium was used for anthologies of any kind before it settled on the bead-counted prayer. The physical beads existed earlier as a counting aid; the name attached in the fifteenth century as the Dominican devotion spread. Rose imagery around Mary runs deep — the rose without thorns, the mystical rose of the Litany of Loreto — and it supplied a whole family of names: Rosa, Rosalia, Rosario, Rosalind by coincidence, Rosaria. Rosalea peaks in America in 1934.
Meaning
Latin "of the roses"
From rosa, a rose, through Rosalia — both the Roman spring festival of roses and the name of Saint Rosalia of Palermo. Rosalie is the French form, and Rosalea is an American respelling. Rosarium, the rose garden, gave the rosary by metaphor; the two words are related but the names Rosalia and Rosario descend from different applications of the same root.
How the name formed
- rosa
- Rosalia
- Rosalie
- Rosalea
Related forms: Rosalie · Rosalia · Rosalie
Pronouncing Rosalea
roh-zuh-LEE-uh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Rosalie is three syllables with the stress on the first, ROH-zuh-lee; the -ea spelling adds a syllable and shifts the weight.
Nicknames for Rosalea
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 193420 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1697reached in 1934
- Change vs 2024
- +133.3%14 in 2025, from 6
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.
Rosalea in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rosalie in French — spelling variant
- Rosalia in Italian — same name
- Rosalie in German — same name
Rosaleas among us
people named Rosalea are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was named Rosalea
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rosalea
- #7491
- Rosalea on the 2025 chart
- #939
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rosalea went to 14 girls in 2025, but Rosaleah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 21, which makes it the 939th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,552 places above the chart.
- Rosalea14
- Rosaleah7
About 1 girl in 76,537 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 114,805 for Rosalea itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Corinthia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rosalea's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Corinthia climbed just as high around 1905, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Corinthia's path sketches the road Rosalea is walking now.
Rosalea 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
Rosalea beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rosalea in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, vivid and connected to a large family of names.
- Rosa, Rosie and Lea are all ready short forms.
- It is soft and easy to say in English.
- Rosalie and Rosalia are the standard spellings.
- The syllable count and stress differ between the spellings.
- The 1930s peak dates a bearer fairly clearly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rosaleas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Rosalea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rosalea?
- Rosalea is the most-used spelling in US records — 14 of the 21 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Rosaleah.
- How popular is the name Rosalea in 2025?
- Rosalea ranks #7491 among US girl names in 2025, with 14 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rosalea?
- About 1 in every 114,805 US girls born in 2025 was named Rosalea — 14 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rosalea with classmates?
- Rosalea will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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