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Rosalva

Girls' name

Variant of Rosalba

Rosalva has been given to 2,128 babies in the U.S. since 1926. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Rosalva, 2023

1 in 552,000

Rosalva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosalva: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rosalba

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosalva means

Rosalva is a variant of Rosalba.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rosalva is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ro.ˈsal.βa/ for Rosalva.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rosalva → Rosalba. The family’s meaning is “white rose”, recorded in the naming reference for Rosalba.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosalba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Rosalva is pronounced /roˈsalba/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,128 girls were recorded with the name Rosalva between 1926 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,548 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rosalva?

Rosalva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosalva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosalva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosalvas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosalva was born before 1977 — so the typical Rosalva is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,044
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (517).

Is Rosalva rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (65)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,548
1974

Spellings of Rosalva

Rosalva is not the most common spelling — Rosalie is, with 46.0% against Rosalva's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rosalva is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosalva was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 24,247 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rosalva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosalva in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rosalva. Linked forms have their own page here.

RosalbaRosaliaRosalvina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rosalva by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,548
1974
Peak year
1975
65 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,128
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosalva

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RoselleRosauraRosariaRosalbaRoseleeRoslynnRosalinRosetteRossanaRoselieRossieRosanaRoseliaRosslynRoselinRoselynnRosendaRosaleaRoselineRosamondRosalynnRosabelRosaleenRosaline

Names with a curve like Rosalva

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rosalva, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JulianeMikkiChristianeCarlosRebbeccaMelaineDainaAndreJinaChariseJenineAudrea

Sibling names for Rosalva

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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