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Rosendo

#4,228 in 2025Boys' name

Glory, fame + path

Rosendo has been given to 5,422 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #4,228 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Rosendo, 2025

1 in 133,000

Rosendo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosendo: meaning, origin, and history

Glory, fame + path

Spanish

What Rosendo means

Rosendo means “glory, fame + path”, associated with 𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 and 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Surname from transferred use of given name, of Spanish, Galician, or Portuguese origin, from Medieval Latin Rudesindus, from the Germanic (Gothic) name Rudesind, composed of the elements *𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (*hrōþs, “glory, fame”) and *𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (*sinþs, “path”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz + *sinþaz.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rosendo (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Rosendo is used in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Rosendo comes through Medieval Latin Rudesindus and Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Rosendo is pronounced /roˈsendo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,422 boys were recorded with the name Rosendo between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1993; its best national rank was #864 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,001 in 2020 to #4,228 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,350 in 2015 to #4,228 in 2025.

How common is Rosendo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,228
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosendo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosendo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosendos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosendo was born before 1975 — so the typical Rosendo is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,036
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (722).

Is Rosendo 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
+443
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−227
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−878
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.5%
Peak was 1993 (91)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#864
1930

Spellings of Rosendo

Rosendo is not the most common spelling — Rolando is, with 81.8% against Rosendo's 18.2%.

  • Rolando81.8%24,438
  • Rosendo18.2%5,422

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 Rosendo is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosendo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 20,193 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,556
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 8,333
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

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

Rosendo around the world

Where Rosendo 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.

  • France
    1948–1972
    #2,098
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Rosendo

People whose public names include Rosendo, 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.

Rosendo in other languages

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

RossendRudesindoRudesindus

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

Rosendo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,228
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 227
Best rank ever
#864
1930
Peak year
1993
91 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,422
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Rosendo

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

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Names with a curve like Rosendo

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

LeopoldoHilarioReymundoArnulfoErasmoFerminEugenioClementeAlfonzoReyesEloyEdmundo

Sibling names for Rosendo

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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