Rosamary
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rosamary has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1960, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Rosamary, 1971
1 in 572,000
Rosamary over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rosamary?
Rosamary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 572,000
- 6 of 3,432,187 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 277,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 396,503 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rosamary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 396,503 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosamary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rosamarys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosamary was born before 1943 — so the typical Rosamary is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 28.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 67
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Rosamary 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 1960 (12)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.8% average annual change
Spellings of Rosamary
Rosamary is not the most common spelling — Rosemary is, with 98.3% against Rosamary's 0.12%.
Rosamary around the world
Where Rosamary ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1970–1970#707in 1970
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rosamary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rosamary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rosamary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.