Rosemary
Rosemary is ranked 301st among girls in 2024 (1,037 births). Its best rank was 74th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- #301up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0370.06% of girls
- Peak year
- 19474,542 births
- Best rank
- #74in 1946
- Since 1882
- 161,922people given the name
The story in the numbers
161,922 girls have been named Rosemary in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 4,542 births — 0.26% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 570 → 301).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 21%. It has spent 141 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosemary | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 73 | |
| 1890s | 200 | |
| 1900s | 634 | |
| 1910s | 7,079 | |
| 1920s | 25,965 | |
| 1930s | 24,857 | |
| 1940s | 34,296 | |
| 1950s | 25,019 | |
| 1960s | 14,604 | |
| 1970s | 5,823 | |
| 1980s | 4,988 | |
| 1990s | 4,051 | |
| 2000s | 3,960 | |
| 2010s | 5,926 | |
| 2020s | 4,447 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Rosemary was the 80th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Rosemary
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elainepeak 1947
- Eilenepeak 1946
- Ilenepeak 1950
- Earleenpeak 1927
- Charlynepeak 1946
- Elaynepeak 1946
- Raymapeak 1947
- Phyllispeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
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.