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Rosemond

Girls' name

Possibly horse + protection, through Rosamund

Rosemond has been given to 509 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1920, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Rosemond, 1980

1 in 689,000

Rosemond over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosemond: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly horse + protection, through Rosamund

Germanic languages

What Rosemond means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rosemond 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, 491 girls were recorded with the name Rosemond between 1902 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,660 in 1920.

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Rosemond between 1916 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,399 in 1916.

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 Rosemond?

Rosemond had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosemond 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 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosemond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosemonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosemond was born before 1925 — so the typical Rosemond is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
21
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1920s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Rosemond 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 1920 (26)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,660
1920

Spellings of Rosemond

Rosemond is not the most common spelling — Rosamond is, with 87.0% against Rosemond's 13.0%.

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 Rosemond is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosemond was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Rosemond has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosemond around the world

Where Rosemond 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 Australia
    1954–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rosemond by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,660
1920
Peak year
1920
26 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
491
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,399
1916
Peak year
1995
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosemond

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

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Sibling names for Rosemond

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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