Roser

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Roser has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Roser, 1927

1 in 464,000

Roser over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roser: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roser means

Roser is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Roser is used in Catalan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Roser is pronounced [ruˈze̞].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Roser between 1915 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,174 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Roser?

Roser had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927: 1 in 464,000; 5 of 2,319,281 births
Among girls only: 1 in 238,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1927: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 321,522 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Roser 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 1927 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 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roser was born before 1921 — so the typical Roser is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Roser 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (6)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,174; 1915

Spellings of Roser

Roser is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 59.8% against Roser's <0.01%.

Rose59.8%500,586
Rosa21.2%177,415
Rosie10.2%85,556
Robert2.4%20,119
River2.4%19,675
Jose0.50%4,220
Rosia0.42%3,506
Josey0.39%3,231

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.

Roser 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,174; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 6 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1927
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Roser

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

Rossa Rosel Rosse Rosaya Roshun Roslie Roscoe Rosane Roshea Roshae Rosemay Rositta Rosalua Roshida Rosanny Rosale Roshna Roseli Rosarie Rosolyn Rosha Rosan Rosaida Roshena

Sibling names for Roser

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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