Rosa
Rosa is ranked 663rd among girls in 2024 (440 births). Its best rank was 52nd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #663up 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4400.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19252,230 births
- Best rank
- #52in 1880
- Since 1880
- 178,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
176,963 girls have been named Rosa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 2,230 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 440 births in 2024, against 2,230 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,173 boys have also been given it, 0.66% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6,157 | |
| 1890s | 7,881 | |
| 1900s | 9,297 | |
| 1910s | 15,976 | |
| 1920s | 20,791 | |
| 1930s | 16,050 | |
| 1940s | 16,796 | |
| 1950s | 19,876 | |
| 1960s | 15,043 | |
| 1970s | 12,290 | |
| 1980s | 10,793 | |
| 1990s | 11,083 | |
| 2000s | 7,995 | |
| 2010s | 4,650 | |
| 2020s | 2,285 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Rosa was the 125th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Rosa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minervapeak 1955
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Renapeak 1962
- Bertapeak 1926
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Alidapeak 1917
- Elizebethpeak 1928
- Susiepeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.