Rosalinda
Feminine · “horse shield”
Rosalinda is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 15,628 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Rosalinda looks like a beautiful rose in Spanish, but the Germanic original is hros lind — horse and shield — which is a different picture entirely.
How old is the name Rosalinda?
Rosalinda first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Rosalinda alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 14,000 people named Rosalinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rosalinda most popular?
Rosalinda peaked in 1949, reaching #464 nationally. Today it ranks #2153, 1,689 places below that high. See the whole 1949 chart.
Where it comes from
From hros lind to Rosalinda
The story of Rosalinda
Lind named the lime wood shields were made from and came to mean soft or gentle; hros is a horse. Germanic Roslindis reached Spain with the Visigoths, where Spanish speakers heard rosa linda instead. Both understandings are alive. Rosalinda appears in American records in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
horse shield; or beautiful rose
From the Germanic hros, 'horse', and lind, 'shield' of lime wood, or 'soft'. Romance speakers reread it as rosa linda, 'beautiful rose', and the folk etymology shaped the modern spelling. Both readings are in circulation and the Germanic is the historical one.
How the name formed
- hros lind
- Roslindis
- Rosalinda
Related forms: Rosalinda · Rosalinda · Rosalind
Pronouncing Rosalinda
roh-sah-LEEN-dah
Four syllables, stress on the third. Spanish gives every vowel a full value.
Nicknames for Rosalinda
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 1950293 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #464reached in 1949
- Change vs 2023
- −18.9%86 in 2025, from 106
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.
Rosalinda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rosalinda in Spanish — same name
- Rosalinda in Italian — same name
- Rosalind in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Rosalindas among us
people named Rosalinda are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,689 born in 2025 was named Rosalinda
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 Myrtis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rosalinda's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Myrtis climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Myrtis's path sketches the road Rosalinda is walking now.
Rosalinda 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
Where Rosalinda is headed
Rosalinda should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Rosalinda beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rosalinda in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That a horse-and-shield name was reheard as a beautiful rose is a first-rate history.
- Rosa and Linda are two short forms, both with large records.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The two readings give quite different pictures.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
- It reads as specifically Spanish-speaking and traditional.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rosalindas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,000 people named Rosalinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rosalinda in 2025?
- Rosalinda ranks #2153 among US girl names in 2025, with 86 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rosalinda?
- About 1 in every 18,689 US girls born in 2025 was named Rosalinda — 86 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rosalinda with classmates?
- Rosalinda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Rosalinda
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