Rosalie
Feminine · “rose”
Rosalie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 84,049 girls against 96 boys since 1880.
Rosalie is the French form of Rosalia, and behind both stands the Latin word for rose. It arrived in English-speaking use in the nineteenth century and has never really left, carried along by three easy syllables that end on a bright note. It has been shortened to Rosie for as long as it has been in use.
How old is the name Rosalie?
Rosalie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Rosalie alive today was born around 1945, making them about 80 years old. About 48,000 people named Rosalie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rosalie most popular?
Rosalie peaked in 1938, reaching #66 nationally. Today it ranks #171, 105 places below that high. See the whole 1938 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rosa to Rosalie
The story of Rosalie
The root is Latin rosa. Rosalia was both a Roman spring festival at which tombs were decorated with roses and, later, a personal name — borne by Saint Rosalia of Palermo, a twelfth-century hermit who became the city's patron and whose cult spread the name through Sicily and Italy. French speakers reshaped Rosalia into Rosalie, and it is that French spelling that traveled into English, German and Dutch use. It has stayed close to its cousins ever since: Rosalía in Spanish and Italian, Rozalia in Polish, Rozália in Hungarian, all leaning on the same flower.
Meaning
rose
From Latin rosa, by way of the name Rosalia.
How the name formed
- Rosa
- Rosalia
- Rosalie
Related forms: Rosalie · Rosalia · Rosalía · Rozalia · Rozália · Rosalie
Pronouncing Rosalie
ROH-zuh-lee
Also commonly ROZ-uh-lee, with a short first vowel; both are accepted in American English. In French the stress moves to the end: roh-zah-LEE.
Nicknames for Rosalie
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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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 19392,162 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #66reached in 1938
- Change vs 2022
- +6.2%1,797 in 2025, from 1,692
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.
Rosalie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rosalie in French — same name
- Rosalia in Italian — related form
- Rosalía in Spanish — related form
- Rozalia in Polish — related form
- Rozália in Hungarian — related form
- Rosalie in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania. International figures from Statistics Canada. Sources
Rosalies among us
people named Rosalie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 894 born in 2025 was named Rosalie
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 Vera test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rosalie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vera climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vera's path sketches the road Rosalie is walking now.
Rosalie peaked long ago yet still holds steady — names that survive their own wave usually settle into quiet, durable classics.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Rosalie is headed
Rosalie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Rosalie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rosalie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Meaning is settled and easy to say in one word: rose.
- Ready-made short forms — Rosie, Rose, Rosa — all of them long established, so nothing has to be invented.
- Recognizable across French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Hungarian, with only small changes of spelling.
- An unbroken record in American use since records began, without ever becoming a name you hear in every room.
- Still strongly represented among older generations, which gives it a family-name feel in many households.
- It sits in a crowded neighborhood of similar names — Rosalyn, Rosalind, Rosalia, Rosalee — so expect occasional corrections, especially in writing and over the phone.
- Two pronunciations circulate, ROH-zuh-lee and ROZ-uh-lee. Neither is wrong, but you will be asked which one you use.
- Rosie is such a natural shortening that the full name may end up reserved for forms and formal introductions.
- For readers of the Twilight novels and films, the name attaches to the character Rosalie Hale — a passing association for some, invisible to others.
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Feminine · #171 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Rosalies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 48,000 people named Rosalie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rosalie in 2025?
- Rosalie ranks #171 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,797 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rosalie?
- About 1 in every 894 US girls born in 2025 was named Rosalie — 1,797 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rosalie with classmates?
- Rosalie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Rosalie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Vivienne#172 · Gemma#170 · Ruth#173 · Blair#169 · Ailani#168 · Ariella#174 · Callie#175 · Skylar#167
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