Roselee
Feminine · “rose”
Lee is the most-used second element in American compound names, and in the South it was an honor name: Robert E. Lee's surname went onto sons and daughters alike for three generations after 1865, and it ended up glued to the back of half the women's names in the region.
How old is the name Roselee?
Roselee first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Roselee alive today was born around 1940, making them about 85 years old. About 700 people named Roselee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Roselee most popular?
Roselee peaked in 1903, reaching #1204 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 5,634 places below that high. See the whole 1903 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rosa to Roselee
The story of Roselee
Lee became an American given name in two waves. In the North it was a plain English surname turned first name, like Grant and Clay; in the South it was specifically Robert E. Lee's, and the practice of naming children for him ran from the 1860s well into the twentieth century. Because it is one syllable and unstressed at the end of a word, it attaches to anything, and it became the standard second element of American compound and double names: Roselee, Evalee, Bobbie Lee, Mary Lee, Sara Lee. Roselee's best year on file is 1903, which places it with the generation named by people who had lived through the war.
Meaning
rose, plus a clearing or meadow
Rose is Latin rosa, the flower, though the personal name may also have been reinforced by a Germanic element hros, a horse. Lee is Old English leah, a woodland clearing, the same element behind Langley, Ashley and Hadley, and it survives as the modern English word Leigh. The compound holds two meanings and creates none of its own.
How the name formed
- rosa
- Rose
- Rose Lee
- Roselee
Related forms: Roselee · Rosalee · Roselie
Pronouncing Roselee
ROHZ-lee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Some families give it three, ROH-zuh-lee, following Rosalee, and both are current.
Nicknames for Roselee
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
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 192131 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1204reached in 1903
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%16 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.
Roselee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Roselee in English — same name
- Rosalee in English — spelling variant
- Roselie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Roselees among us
people named Roselee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Roselee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Roselee
- #6838
- Roselee on the 2025 chart
- #929
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Roselee went to 16 girls in 2025, but Roselle and Rozelle are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 31, which makes it the 929th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,909 places above the chart.
- Roselee16
- Roselle10
- Rozelle5
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Roselee 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
Fashion outlook
Roselee 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
Roselee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Roselee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two complete names inside one, both usable alone.
- A settled meaning in the first element and a real Old English word in the second.
- Rose and Rosie are both immediately available.
- Rosalee and Roselee both circulate and are said slightly differently.
- In the South the Lee element carries a specific historical association.
- It reads as a turn-of-the-century American name, which is its period.
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Frequently asked
- How many Roselees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Roselee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Roselee?
- Roselee is the most-used spelling in US records — 16 of the 31 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Roselle and Rozelle.
- How popular is the name Roselee in 2025?
- Roselee ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Roselee?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Roselee — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Roselee with classmates?
- Roselee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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