Rosary
#14,580 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rosary has been given to 580 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #14,580 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1943, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Rosary, 2025
1 in 553,000
Rosary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rosary?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,580
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rosary sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rosarys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosary was born before 1950 — so the typical Rosary is around 75 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 20.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 298
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Rosary 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
- +2,613
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +200
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,467
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 33.3%
- Peak was 1943 (18)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Rosary
Rosary is not the most common spelling — Rosa is, with 43.9% against Rosary's 0.14%.
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 Rosary is used
Across 1910–2025, Rosary was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 327,877 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Rosary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rosary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rosary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rosary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.