Rozella
Feminine · “little rose”
There is a parrot named after this name, more or less by accident. The rosella of Australia was first recorded at a place called Rose Hill outside Sydney, the birds were called rosehillers, and the word wore down to rosella — which is now what the whole genus is called.
How old is the name Rozella?
Rozella first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Rozella alive today was born around 1928, making them about 97 years old. About 800 people named Rozella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rozella most popular?
Rozella peaked in 1881, reaching #740 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rosa to Rozella
The story of Rozella
Rosa was among the most heavily built-on names in nineteenth-century America, and the endings available were Italian: -ella, -etta, -ina. Rosella is the finished Italian form and it came with Italian families; Rozella is the same name with the American consonant, written by someone who heard a z between the vowels and put one there. That change is why the two spellings look like different names. The record shows Rozella from the very first year of the count, in the same decades as Rosetta, Rosina and Rosella, all of them cut from one root.
Meaningscholars disagree
little rose
The name is Rosa with an Italian diminutive ending, which gives little rose. The bird's name came by an entirely different road and only sounds the same.
How the name formed
- Rosa
- Rosella
- Rozella
Related forms: Rosella · Rosela
Pronouncing Rozella
roh-ZEL-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The z and the s spellings are said identically in English.
Nicknames for Rozella
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
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 192382 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #740reached in 1881
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%9 in 2024, from 9
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.
Rozella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rosella in Italian — spelling variant
- Rosela in Spanish — related form
Rozellas among us
people named Rozella are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Rozella sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every part of it is familiar, so the name is read correctly at sight.
- It carries two short forms with quite different characters.
- The flower behind it needs no explanation in any language.
- Rosella and Rozella are both in the record and will be written for you in turn.
- The Italian-looking ending has an Italian original, but this spelling is not it.
- It reads clearly as a name of the nineteenth century.
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- How many Rozellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Rozella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rozella in 2025?
- Rozella is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Rozella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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