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Rosamond

#16,777 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly horse + protection, through Rosamund

Rosamond has been given to 3,294 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #16,777 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Rosamond, 2025

1 in 663,000

Rosamond over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosamond: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly horse + protection, through Rosamund

Germanic languages

What Rosamond means

Rosamond belongs to the name family reached through Rosamond → Rosamund. Its meaning is “horse + protection”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosamond is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosamund.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,288 girls were recorded with the name Rosamond between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 1916; its best national rank was #575 in 1912.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Rosamond between 1927 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,124 in 1927.

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 Rosamond?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,777
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosamond 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosamond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosamonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosamond was born before 1923 — so the typical Rosamond is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
378
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (895).

Is Rosamond 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
4.5%
Peak was 1916 (111)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#575
1912

Spellings of Rosamond

Rosamond is not the most common spelling — Rosalind is, with 89.2% against Rosamond's 10.8%.

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 Rosamond is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosamond was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 84,401 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  2. 2Indiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Maine1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Vermont1 in 50,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Rosamond has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosamond around the world

Where Rosamond 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1949–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rosamond

People whose public names include Rosamond, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rosamond in other languages

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

Rosemond

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

Rosamond by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#575
1912
Peak year
1916
111 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,288
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,124
1927
Peak year
1927
6 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosamond

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

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Names with a curve like Rosamond

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

IdellBerneiceAlvertaEthelynOdellMozellGarnettAlthaArvillaEstellClaudieMadie

Sibling names for Rosamond

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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