Rosetta
Rosetta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 220th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1948578 births
- Best rank
- #220in 1881
- Since 1880
- 28,110people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,110 girls have been named Rosetta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1948, with 578 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1940s alone account for 17%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosetta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 496 | |
| 1890s | 742 | |
| 1900s | 1,143 | |
| 1910s | 2,887 | |
| 1920s | 4,355 | |
| 1930s | 4,464 | |
| 1940s | 4,800 | |
| 1950s | 3,819 | |
| 1960s | 2,217 | |
| 1970s | 1,100 | |
| 1980s | 700 | |
| 1990s | 444 | |
| 2000s | 314 | |
| 2010s | 421 | |
| 2020s | 208 |
In 1948, its biggest year
Rosetta was the 325th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1948 were Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1948.
Names that rose and fell with Rosetta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mariettapeak 1921
- Marypeak 1921
- Dollypeak 1926
- Marthapeak 1947
- Celestinepeak 1952
- Janniepeak 1924
- Lenorapeak 1924
- Margaretpeak 1921
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.