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Rosia

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Rosia has been given to 3,506 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1925, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Rosia, 2013

1 in 729,000

Rosia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosia means

Rosia is a given name.

The naming story behind Rosia

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Rosia in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 204, 398.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Teu. fame”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Rosia, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,506 girls were recorded with the name Rosia between 1880 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1925; its best national rank was #541 in 1910.

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.

How common is Rosia?

Rosia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosia 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosia was born before 1927 — so the typical Rosia is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.63%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
558
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1920s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (733).

Is Rosia 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 1925 (102)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#541
1910

Spellings of Rosia

Rosia is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 30.3% against Rosia's 0.21%.

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 Rosia is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 20,034 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 6,250
  3. 3Georgia1 in 14,286
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 14,286
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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

Rosia around the world

Where Rosia 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
    1902–1927
    #1,218
    in 1927

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

Rosia 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
#541
1910
Peak year
1925
102 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
3,506
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosia

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

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Names with a curve like Rosia

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

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Sibling names for Rosia

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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