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Rosario

#2,114 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Rosary

Rosario has been given to 16,585 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #2,114 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 175 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.

Babies named Rosario, 2025

1 in 37,200

Rosario over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rosario over time

In 2025, Rosario went to 82% girls and 18% boys.

18962025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Rosario: meaning, origin, and history

Rosary

Spanish and Italian

About Rosario

Rosario is a name meaning “rosary,” rooted in the Catholic title Our Lady of the Rosary. It is traditionally feminine in Spanish and masculine in Italian. Painter Rosario Cabrera and actor Rosario Dawson provide two distinctive modern associations with the feminine name, while Rosaria is a related Italian form.

Meaning and naming tradition

The Spanish title Nuestra Señora del Rosario supplies the devotional background. Rosario takes the word rosary into personal naming, connecting the name with prayer and devotion to the Virgin Mary.

The same spelling developed different gender patterns across languages. Spanish Rosario is feminine, while Italian Rosario is masculine; Rosaria is the Italian feminine counterpart. This makes the language context especially relevant to the name’s history.

Charo is an established Spanish familiar form. It is much shorter than Rosario and does not preserve every sound of the full name, but the relationship is traditional rather than a modern invention.

Rosario Cabrera

Mexican painter Rosario Cabrera also worked as an educator and advocated extending art education into rural communities. Her paintings include landscapes and portraits, and her career joined artistic practice with the development of teaching.

In 1924 she received a Mexican government scholarship to study in Paris. Her time in Europe exposed her to museums, different artistic movements, and printmaking. Casa roja, painted around 1926, belongs to that period.

After returning to Mexico, Cabrera directed open-air painting schools in Los Reyes, Coyoacán, in 1928 and Cholula, Puebla, in 1929. Those roles give Rosario a connection with the educational side of modern Mexican art as well as with an individual painter’s work.

Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson made her feature-film debut in Kids as a teenager. Her later screen work included films such as Rent and the Sin City series, giving the name a recognizable association with contemporary American cinema.

She has also worked extensively in voice acting, including Barbara Gordon, or Batgirl, in The Lego Batman Movie and Wonder Woman in animated productions. This range connects Rosario with both live-action performance and characters heard rather than physically portrayed.

Cabrera and Dawson belong to different periods and artistic settings. Together, they give the name more than one substantial creative association beyond its older devotional origin.

Pronunciation and American popularity

Spanish Rosario is approximately roh-SAH-ryoh, with stress on the middle syllable. Italian also places the stress in the middle, with a voiced z-like sound for the s. Both normally have three syllables.

In American records, Rosario’s largest annual female total was 175 in 1993, while its largest male total was 140 in 1917. In 2025 it was given to 89 girls and 19 boys. The separate peaks reflect a spelling with a long record of use for both sexes.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Existing Wiktionary material is attributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable. American popularity figures use the local Social Security Administration series for this exact spelling; name-sex-year counts below five are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Rosario?

In 2025, Rosario ranked #2,114 among girls in the United States, with 89 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1896; its largest annual count was 175 in 1993. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Rosario?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,200
89 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,114
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,820 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosario 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosarios were born

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

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,308
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (1,513).

Is Rosario 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
+603
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+322
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+501
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.9%
Peak was 1993 (175)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#741
1953

Spellings of Rosario

Rosario is not the most common spelling — Rosalie is, with 74.9% against Rosario's 9.8%.

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 Rosario is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Rosario was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 12,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

031 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 3,226
  2. 2California1 in 4,762
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,143
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 33,333
  8. 8New York1 in 33,333

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

Where Rosario is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Rosario was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 26,062 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,143
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 20,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Rhode Island1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Rosario has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosario around the world

Where Rosario 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
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–1978
    #522
    in 1978
  • France
    1914–1990
    #3,507
    in 1990
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #462
    in 1967

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

Notable people named Rosario

People whose public names include Rosario, 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.

Rosario in other languages

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

RosalioRosariaTriantaphyllosMaria del Rosario

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

Rosario by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,114
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 322
Best rank ever
#741
1953
Peak year
1993
175 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,974
Count in 2025
89

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,160
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 768
Best rank ever
#487
1917
Peak year
1917
140 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,611
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Rosario

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

RosaliaRosaleeRoselynRosannaRosanneRoseannRosellaRosalynRosettaRoseanneRositaRoslynRosalbaRoseannaRosalinaRosinaRosariaRosauraRosalindRoselleRosalineRosalindaRosalynnRosamond

Names with a curve like Rosario

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

AnnamarieRoxannaGracielaSuzannaElviaRosalindaStarrAidaJuliannEstelaLaniSusanna

Sibling names for Rosario

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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