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Rosana

#9,342 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Roxana

Rosana has been given to 2,554 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #9,342 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Rosana, 2025

1 in 301,000

Rosana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Roxana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosana means

Rosana is a form of Roxana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rosana → Roxana → Ῥωξᾱ́νη. The family’s meaning is “lamp”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements lŭ́khnos.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosana is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana and Roxanne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Rosana is pronounced /ʁoˈzɐ̃.nɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,554 girls were recorded with the name Rosana between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,175 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,920 in 2020 to #9,342 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,376 in 2015 to #9,342 in 2025.

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 Rosana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,342
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosana 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosanas were born

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

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,117
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Choose a decade

1980s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (517).

Is Rosana 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
−493
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,578
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+34
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.1%
Peak was 1983 (78)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,175
1885

Spellings of Rosana

Rosana is not the most common spelling — Rosa is, with 39.4% against Rosana's 0.57%.

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 Rosana is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 57,759 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 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. Rosana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosana around the world

Where Rosana 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
    2003–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1931–2025
    #2,318
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rosana

People whose public names include Rosana, 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.

Rosana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,342
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,578
Best rank ever
#1,175
1885
Peak year
1983
78 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,554
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Rosana

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

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Names with a curve like Rosana

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

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Sibling names for Rosana

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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