Roseanna
Feminine · “rose”
Roseanna joins the rose to Anna, and the rose in European naming is usually not a flower at all — it is a Germanic word for fame.
How old is the name Roseanna?
Roseanna was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Roseanna alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 4,400 people named Roseanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Roseanna most popular?
Roseanna peaked in 1950, reaching #486 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 3,686 places below that high. See the whole 1950 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rose Anna to Roseanna
The story of Roseanna
Rose as a name entered England from two directions: the Norman Roese and Rohese, which are Germanic compounds with no flower in them, and the later devotional use of the flower itself. By the eighteenth century the flower had taken over entirely. Roseanna and Rosanna appear in English and American records from that period and were well used through the nineteenth century.
Meaningscholars disagree
rose; grace
Anna is documented: from Hebrew Hannah, grace. The Rose- element is genuinely double — Latin rosa, the flower, and Germanic hros, a horse, or hrod, fame, which stand behind Rosalind and Rosamund. Which a compound carries depends on its age.
How the name formed
- Rose Anna
- Roseanna
Related forms: Rosanna · Rosanna · Rosana
Pronouncing Roseanna
roh-ZAN-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Roseanna
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1982155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #486reached in 1950
- Change vs 2022
- −8.1%34 in 2025, from 37
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.
Roseanna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rosanna in English — spelling variant
- Rosanna in Italian — same name
- Rosana in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Roseannas among us
people named Roseanna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Roseanna
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 Manuela test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Roseanna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Manuela climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Manuela's path sketches the road Roseanna is walking now.
Roseanna 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 Roseanna is headed
Roseanna looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Roseanna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Roseanna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Rose and Anna are both complete names with very deep records.
- A genuinely interesting double history behind the Rose element.
- Substantial nineteenth and twentieth-century American use.
- Rosanna with one e is the more common spelling.
- Nine letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Roseannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Roseanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Roseanna in 2025?
- Roseanna ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Roseanna?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Roseanna — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Roseanna with classmates?
- Roseanna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Roseanna
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